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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xv, 378 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys,and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's 'Ghost Mountain Boys'...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvi, 494 p : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front. Among the great World War II conflicts, the three-week battle for Saipan is often forgotten--yet historian Donald Miller calls it 'as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany.' On the night of the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just outside San Francisco, exploded...
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