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and de facto editor and assistant who was with me on this book from the outset, who took time away from his own novel to transcribe taped interviews, to mine WWII books for ideas and narrative techniques, and to challenge me always to pare down my language, to make it spare and clean. It would have been impossible for me to write this story without his encouragement, help, and estimable editorial skills.

Finally, a word about the country of Papua New Guinea. War is an ugly thing, and in the context of this book, the country that I love is not portrayed very favorably. But I remain as impressed by its landscape, its diversity of culture, language, and flora and fauna, and the kindness of its people as when I first set foot in PNG nearly twenty years ago.

Copyright © 2007 by James Campbell

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Crown is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Harold Ober Associates: Excerpt from “Sunday: New Guinea” from Poems of a Jew by Karl Shapiro, copyright © 1943 by Karl Shapiro, copyright renewed 1971 by Karl Shapiro.

Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates.

Title page art: U.S. Army Archive

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Campbell, James.

The Ghost Mountain boys: their epic march and the terrifying battle for New Guinea—the forgotten war of the South Pacific / James Campbell.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th—History. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Regimental histories—United States. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Papua New Guinea. I. Title.

D769.31126th .C36 2007

940.54'2653—dc22 2007013140

Interior and endpaper map illustrations by Jackie Aher

eISBN: 978-0-307-40743-6

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