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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
First edition
AuthorHampton Sides
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genrehistory
PublisherAnchor Books
Publication date
2001
Pages343
ISBN9781299076518
OCLC842990576
Former Cabanatuan POWs march to freedom

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Doubleday, 2001) is a non-fiction book written by Hampton Sides. It is about the World War II Allied prison camp raid at Cabanatuan in the Philippines.

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