Challenge for the Pacific : the bloody six-month Battle of Guadalcanal
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Challenge for the Pacific : the bloody six-month Battle of Guadalcanal
Da Capo Press, 1999
1st Da Capo Press ed
- alk. paper
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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1965, in series: The crossroads of world history series
Bibliography: p. [354]-358
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内容説明
In August 1942, after suffering a series of humiliating defeats, inflicted by a nation not much bigger than California, the Allies seized the initiative in their first offensive of the Pacific War. Nicknamed "Operation Shoestring," this unprecedented joint-services campaign involved both ground fighting, air combat, and naval clashes, including two carrier battles. For six months Allied and Japanese forces fought night and day in a ferocious struggle for possession of a tiny ramshackle airfield in the middle of the malarial, pest-ridden jungle of a little-known island called Guadalcanal. Robert Leckie, a decorated machine-gunner and scout with the First Marine Division, fought on Guadalcanal. His own experiences as well as those of other combatantsboth Allied and Japaneseadd immeasurably to the impact of this sweeping narrative. Leckie describes how the exceptional tenacity and courage of ordinary men transformed a campaign of uncertain outcome into one of the most decisive Allied victories of the war, a military triumph that, against formidable odds, decimated Japan's navy and air force, forever shattering her grand strategy and the myth of Japanese invincibility.
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