Conquering Tide - War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
Conquering Tide - War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied…
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Conquering Tide - War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide," concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. Toll's battle scenes--in the air, at sea, and in the jungles--are simply riveting. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal.Often overlooked, these are the years and fights that decided the Pacific War. Ian W.
He also takes the reader into the wartime councils in Washington and Tokyo where politics and strategy often collided, and into the struggle to mobilize wartime production, which
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