Challenge for the Pacific: The Bloody Six-Month Battle of Guadalcanal - Brossura

Leckie, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0306809117 ISBN 13: 9780306809118

Casa editrice: Da Capo Pr, 1999

Riassunto

In August 1942, after suffering a series of humiliating defeats, inflicted by a nation not much bigger than California, the Allies seized the initiative in their first offensive of the Pacific War. Nicknamed "Operation Shoestring," this unprecedented joint-services campaign involved both ground fighting, air combat, and naval clashes, including two carrier battles. For six months Allied and Japanese forces fought night and day in a ferocious struggle for possession of a tiny ramshackle airfield in the middle of the malarial, pest-ridden jungle of a little-known island called Guadalcanal. Robert Leckie, a decorated machine-gunner and scout with the First Marine Division, fought on Guadalcanal. His own experiences as well as those of other combatants--both Allied and Japanese--add immeasurably to the impact of this sweeping narrative. Leckie describes how the exceptional tenacity and courage of ordinary men transformed a campaign of uncertain outcome into one of the most decisive Allied victories of the war, a military triumph that, against formidable odds, decimated Japan's navy and air force, forever shattering her grand strategy and the myth of Japanese invincibility.

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L'autore:

Robert Leckie's many books include Conflict: The History of the Korean War, 1950–1953,Okinawa, George Washington's War, From Sea to Shining Sea, None Died in Vain and Delivered from Evil . He lives in Andover, New Jersey.

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Book by Leckie Robert

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• Editore: Da Capo Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0306809117
• ISBN 13: 9780306809118
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384