A novella.

Based upon actual events. In February, 1945, the Japanese garrison on Ramree Island began a retreat to mainland Burma under heavy British fire. Poorly equipped and on foot, one thousand men of the 121st Imperial Infantry Regiment marched into a massive mangrove swamp, and into the jaws of a nightmare. Days later, only twenty soldiers emerged alive. Lt. Shoji Kichida, a young man weary of battle and longing for home, is about to learn there are horrors worse than war, as he leads his men into what has become known as the greatest crocodile massacre in recorded history.

Published
2012
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John L. Campbell

John L. Campbell was born in Chicago, and attended college in North Carolina and New York. His jobs have included limousine driver, bouncer, store detective and investigator. Campbell studied Kendo, and is a professionally-trained interrogator. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, literary magazines and online ezines. Campbell's first book, Red Circus: A Dark Collection, assembled 21 tales of horror and suspense, and was followed by a second, larger collection of terror, In the Falling Light. Campbell's novella, The Mangroves, is based on actual events, and chronicles a WWII Japanese regiment which marched into the most…