Ship of ghosts: the story of the USS Houston, FDR's legendary lost cruiser, and the epic saga of her survivors

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Describes the loss of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slaves on Japan's brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway.

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Houston (Cruiser : CA-30)
Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942
Naval operations, American
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American

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Dean, Robertson
Cashman, Marc
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Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942
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