In 2006, James Campbell mounted an expedition to New Guinea and retraced the route of the Ghost Mountain Boys. He discovered a wilderness largely unchanged in more than sixty years. Campbell is the author of The Final Frontiersman and has written for Outside magazine as well as many other publications. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and three daughters.
"Riveting... "The Ghost Mountain Boys" offers a new, harrowing
world to explore."
--"Richmond Times-Dispatch"
"The Buna campaign in New Guinea was one of the most awful slogs of
World War II and one of the least reported. Now we are fortunate to
have Jim Campbell's outstanding "Ghost Mountain Boys "illuminate
the heroes of the 32nd Division.""
-"James Bradley, bestselling author of "Flags of Our Fathers "and"
Flyboys"
"The ragged heroes cursed to serve in MacArthur's New Guinea
campaigns faced some of the most hellish fighting in all of World
War II. In this intimate and at times excruciatingly vivid account,
James Campbell feelingly recreates the American army's encounters
not only with a fanatical foe but with more insidious adversaries
like jungle rot, malaria, and the venomous creepy-crawlies of the
rainforest. The result is both a classic war story and a spirited
safari through one of the most exotic landscapes on earth."
--Hampton Sides, author of "Ghost Soldiers" and "Blood and
Thunder"
"Jim Campbell's "The Ghost Mountain Boys" is one of those rare
World War II tales that really do deserve to be retold. Thoroughly
researched and expertly written, this engaging narrative will
please both military historians and readers looking for an exciting
odyssey of extraordinary courage and determination."
--Alex Kershaw, author of "The Longest Winter" and "The Few
""Campbell has crafted a compelling war history, one that reads as
a page-turner."
--"FiftyPlus" magazine"
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"Campbell brings to vivid life one of the more forgotten, grislier
campaigns of World War II, the Buna Trail campaign in New Guinea.
The Japanese were trying to get a foothold on the south coast of
the island, opposite Australia. The American Thirty-second Infantry
Division had the job of driving them back over the Owen Stanley
Mountain. It succeeded, at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties,
four-fifths of them from tropical diseases contracted in th
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