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Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
636 pages ; 25 cm
Description
After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe, from Alaska's Aleutians to Burma and New Guinea. The challenges ahead were enormous: supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean; surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria, and other tropical diseases; fighting an enemy prone to ever-more desperate and dangerous assaults. Yet the Army had proven they could fight. Now,...
Author
Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 624 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"John C. McManus, one of our most highly-acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor--a rude awakening for a ragtag militia woefully unprepared for war--to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly-desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and...
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach, acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans...
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