MacArthur's Victory: The War in New Guinea, 1943-1944 - Softcover

Gailey, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345463862 ISBN 13: 9780345463869

Verlag: Presidio Press, 2004

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comrades *Illustrated by seven maps and an eight-page black-and-white insert Upon America's entry into World War II, General Douglas MacArthur was told that his forces in the south-west Pacific theatre would be ranked number three in the armaments supply chain, after Europe and the Navy in the south Pacific. Facing an entrenched enemy in New Guinea and charged with the defence of Australia, MacArthur had to make do with understrength US and Australian forces who were racked by endemic malaria and the depredations of previous battles. To make matters worse, the leadership of the US Navy, angry over the appointment of MacArthur as supreme commander, refused to give him the full co-operation he needed for his ultimate plan to take back the Philippines. That MacArthur achieved victory in New Guinea is nothing less than remarkable. This fascinating book tells of his stunning achievement in exciting prose and exquisite detail- a fitting tribute to a legendary military personality. Harry A. Gailey is Professor Emeritus of Military History at San Jose University and the author of twenty books, including MacArthur Strikes Back and The War in the Pacific.

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A GREAT WARRIOR AT THE PEAK OF HIS POWERS
In March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur faced an enemy who, in the space of a few months, captured Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and, from their base at Raubaul in New Britain, threaten Australia. Upon his retreat to Australia, MacArthur hoped to find enough men and materiel for a quick offensive against the Japanese. Instead, he had available to him only a small and shattered air force, inadequate naval support, and an army made up almost entirely of untried reservists.
Here is one of history's most controversial commanders battling his own superiors for enough supplies, since President Roosevelt favored the European Theater; butting heads with the Navy, which opposed his initiatives; and on his way to making good his promise of liberating the Philippines.
In the battles for Buna, Lae, and Port Moresby, the capture of Finschhafen, and other major actions, he would prove his critics wrong and burnish an image of greatness that would last through the Korean War. This was the "other" Pacific War: the one MacArthur fought in New Guinea and, against all odds and most predictions, decisively won.

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• Verlag: Presidio Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0345463862
• ISBN 13: 9780345463869
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304