Ghost Soldiers pt1

I have started reading Ghost Soldiers this week and I have read the first 50 pages of the book. It is written by Hampton Sides. The book starts out intense setting up the the story by displaying what a Japanese prison camp was like as a prisoner of war (POW). It tells about how the Japanese wanted it to look as if American bombers, bomb their own prisoners at concentration camps. What the Japanese did was as American planes flew over head, they made the US soldiers get into their self made air raid pits. No more than a couple feet wide and about a hundred yards long, the Japanese forced about a hundred soldiers, knee to chain, four feet underground into these pits. The soldiers didn't know it at the time, that the whole scheme was to kill them all, no survivors. The Japanese enclosed the entrances, and as soon as the soldiers were trapped, the Japanese began drenching and covering the pits with gasoline and lighting it on fire. American soldiers forced there way out only to be killed by the machine guns spraying lead everywhere. It was chaos people burning alive, being stabbed, and shot. As soldiers ran they tried to, with their bare hands, tear through the barbwire fences, some made it only to be shot by more machine gun fire. Only eleven soldiers out of the 150 lived to tell the story, but they brave men, who after escaping the camp, went back to the Americas and obviously now tell the tale. The men that died gave their lives fighting for this country and our freedom. I am thankful that I am able to read this so I can learn about how we still have our freedom.