Cracking the Zero Mystery: How the U.S. Learned to Beat Japan's Vaunted Wwii Fighter Plane: How the U.S. Learned to Beat Japan’s Vaunted World War II Fighter Plane - Brossura

Rearden, Jim

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ISBN 10: 081172235X ISBN 13: 9780811722353

Casa editrice: Stackpole Books, 2018

Riassunto

Traces the development and combat use of the Japanese Zero, and recounts how the U.S. gained valuable information from one that crash landed in Alaska

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L'autore:

Jim Rearden is a prolific writer with six books and more than 500 newspaper and magazine articles to his credit.

At age 17, he enlisted the destroyer escort Lovering in the Pacific during World War II. After the war he moved to Alaska to teach wildlife management at the University of Alaska. In 1968 he became outdoors editor for Alaska magazine, a position he held until retiring in 1988.

Cracking the Zero Mystery combines Rearden’s long-time interests in World War II history and in Alaska. The book is the product of arduous research, including extensive correspondence and probing interviews with veterans on both sides of the conflict. Rearden also made an expedition to the crash site of Koga’s Zero.

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Book by Rearden Jim

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• Editore: Stackpole Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 081172235X
• ISBN 13: 9780811722353
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 128