Shadows In The Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines In World War II - Hardcover

Alexander, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451225937 ISBN 13: 9780451225931

Publisher: NAL Caliber, 2009

Synopsis

Drawing on personal interviews with and recollections by veterans, the author of Biggest Brother chronicles the exploits of the Alamo Scouts, members of an elite Army reconnaissance unit during World War II, a group that spent weeks behind enemy lines to gather much needed intelligence for Allied forces in the Pacific.

About this title

About the Author:

Larry Alexander has been a journalist and columnist for the Intelligencer Journal newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for more than a decade, winning numerous awards for excellence in journalism. He grew up on the same street in the same town as Major Dick Winters, three decades later.

Review:

“One of those rare works of nonfiction that does indeed read like a novel and also sheds light on a heroic and almost unknown group of men, while reminding us of just how brutal and unforgiving the war in the Southwest Pacific was.”
—Michael Korda, New York Times bestselling author of Ike: An American Hero

About this edition

• Publisher: NAL Caliber
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0451225937
• ISBN 13: 9780451225931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336