Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific Wars Worst Battlefield Wheelan Joseph
Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific Wars Worst Battlefield Wheelan Joseph The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu - a story of intelligence…
Specifikacia Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific Wars Worst Battlefield Wheelan Joseph
Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific Wars Worst Battlefield Wheelan Joseph
The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu - a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. This important new book explores the dramatic story of this 'forgotten' battle and the campaign's strategic failings. military analysts decided to seize the small island of Peleliu to ensure that the Japanese airfield there could not threaten the invasion forces.
intelligence officers failed to detect the complex network of caves, tunnels, and pillboxes hidden inside the island's coral ridges. Bitter Peleliu reveals how U.S. More importantly, they did not discern - nor could they before it happened - that the defense of Peleliu would represent a tectonic shift in Japanese strategy.
No more contested enemy landings at the water's edge, no more wild banzai attacks.
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