num_pages: 284
description: In his four years of navy service during WWII, Ensign John Horton's military career ranged from communications in Manila to commander of a guerrilla training camp for Chinese soldiers. He also engaged with the Chinese in acts of sabotage, blowing up railroads and bridges in Japanese-occupied areas.Horton experienced a fascinating yet little-known aect of the war. With eyewitness accounts from both chinese and U.S. soldiers , he provides a rare and riveting glimpse of a china filled with bravery and foreboding, a country fighting a vicious enemy while teetering on the brink of civil war.
language: English
title: Ninety-Day Wonder: Flight To Guerrilla War
titlecomplete: Ninety-Day Wonder: Flight To Guerrilla War
ratings_count: 1
publisher: iUniverse