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(0)Ian W Toll
Author
Language
English
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Description
"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide,' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in
the Pacific War. No tactical masterstroke or blunder could reverse the increasingly lopsided balance of power between the
two combatants. The War in the Pacific had entered its endgame. Beginning with the Honolulu Conference,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 597 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
