Implacable foes : war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio.
Implacable foes : war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio.
Implacable foes : war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio.
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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G 2018/2696
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 711 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Gaining momentum -- Moving ahead on New Guinea, April-July, 1944 -- The Marianas campaign, June-August, 1944 -- Accelerating the advance, August-October, 1944 -- Leyte to Manila, October, 1944-March, 1945 -- Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945 -- Recovering Luzon, February-June, 1945 -- Beyond human endu...
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"At the end of World War Two, Americans clamored for their troops to come home. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. The task of defeating the Japanese seemed nearly unsurmountable, even while plans to invade the home islands were...
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Full title
Implacable foes : war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio.
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War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-665) and index.
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G 2018/2696
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74VKVoKaAbBO
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ISBN
019061675X
9780190616755
DDC
940.5426
MMS ID
991024166185302626
