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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Based on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, post-war testimony from both American and Japanese participants, Evan Thomas provides an almost cinematically suspenseful account not only of the great culminating sea battle and the Pacific naval war, but of the contrasting cultures pitted against each other. The book focuses on four naval commanders, two American, two Japanese, whose lives collided at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944--a clash...
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"World War II In the Pacific chronicles the riveting events that lead up to Japan's surprise bombing of the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and details the many air, land and navel engagements that ensued from 1942 until the defeat of Japan in 1945.The rarely seen war film footage used in the set, places you right in the middle of the action and fives all Americans a better understanding of the valor, courage and sacrifices the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The Battle of Iwo Jima, a major event in the Pacific Theater of World War II--and one of the bloodiest in United States history--began on February 19, 1945. But what happened two days earlier has largely been a footnote, until now... On February 17, Landing Craft Infantry 449 was among a dozen gunboats helping to prepare the area for their invasion two days later. U.S. military leaders thought they had weakened Japanese forces in the area so they...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife's Edge Robert C. Stern provides an account of the Battles of the Eastern Solomons and the Santa Cruz Islands, the two pivotal carrier air battles that followed the initial engagements at the Coral Sea and Midway between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial...