The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 (Pacific War Trilogy) - Softcover

Toll, Ian W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393353206 ISBN 13: 9780393353204

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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. 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. Toll's battle scenes—in the air, at sea, and in the jungles—are simply riveting. 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 was the secret of Allied victory. Brilliantly researched, the narrative is propelled and colored by firsthand accounts—letters, diaries, debriefings, and memoirs—that are the raw material of the telling details, shrewd judgment, and penetrating insight of this magisterial history.San Francisco ChroniclePacific CruciblePacific War Trilogy

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Ian W. Toll is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Conquering Tide, Pacific Crucible, and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in New York.

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393353206
• ISBN 13: 9780393353204
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 622
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