Author: Robert Leckie
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553386913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy’s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease. Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world.
Challenge for the Pacific
Author: Robert Leckie
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553386913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy’s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease. Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553386913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy’s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease. Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world.
Red Star Over the Pacific
Author: Toshi Yoshihara
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781591149798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2010.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781591149798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2010.
Challenging the Pacific
Author: Maud Fontenoy
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611455049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In a personal account of determination and accomplishment, the author of Across the Savage Sea describes her challenging effort to row across the Pacific Ocean, chronicling the long and difficult voyage from Peru westward as she overcame stifling tropical heat, the elements, solitude, and the ever-circling sharks to achieve her goal.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611455049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In a personal account of determination and accomplishment, the author of Across the Savage Sea describes her challenging effort to row across the Pacific Ocean, chronicling the long and difficult voyage from Peru westward as she overcame stifling tropical heat, the elements, solitude, and the ever-circling sharks to achieve her goal.
War without Mercy
Author: John Dower
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307816141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307816141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Pacific Campaign
Author: Dan Van der Vat
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671792172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671792172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
Problems of the Pacific
Author: Institute of Pacific Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Problems of the Pacific
Author: Institute of Pacific Relations. Conference
Publisher: Chicago : University Press
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.
Publisher: Chicago : University Press
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.
Problems of the Pacific
Author: Frank Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Small-business Problems in the Pacific Northwest, 1957
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Peoples & Problems of the Pacific
Author: John Macmillan Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description