Camera Soldiers: The Phillipine Odyssey

Camera Soldiers: The Philippine Odyssey is a fact-based novel about the lives and adventures of soldiers whose job during WW II in the Pacific was photography. This is a story of one five-man combat team, soldiers who put their lives on the line by taking their cameras into battle when General MacArthur's forces returned to the Philippines in 1944. Vivid and stunning, Camera Soldiers is a testament to often forgotten heroes, easy targets with their cameras, who suffered casualty rates as high as 50%. In Camera Soldiers: The Philippine Odyssey, Stephens creates indelible portraits of the people whose job it was to record the horrors of war, putting themselves in danger with every shot. Filled with humor, adventure, love, tragedy and triumph, Camera Soldiers: The Philippine Odyssey immortalizes these unsung heroes in a page-turning story and reminds readers that behind every war photograph -- every foot of movie film -- was a flesh and blood photographer.