Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy)

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy)

Author: Ian W. Toll

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 0393083179

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Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.


Three Years in the Pacific, Vol. 1 of 2

Three Years in the Pacific, Vol. 1 of 2

Author: William Samuel Waithman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780365273257

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Excerpt from Three Years in the Pacific, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, &C. In 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 Aloft, lower-yard-men l and they followed to their stations. Close in, you sirs, close in! The men were now seen in the tops, under them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


War in the Pacific

War in the Pacific

Author: Harry Gailey

Publisher: Presidio Press

Published: 2011-08-03

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0307802043

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Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief combatants' military doctrine, training, war plans, and equipment. The book then chronicles all significant actions - from the early Allied defeats in the Philippines, the East Indies, and New Guinea; through the gradual improvement of the Allied position in the Central and Southwest Pacific regions; to the final agonies of the Japanese people, whose leaders refused to admit defeat until the very end. Gailey gives detailed treatment to much that has been neglected or given only cursory mention in previous surveys. The reader thus gains an unparalleled overview of operations, as well as many fresh insights into the behind-the-scenes bickering between the Allies and the interservice squabbles that dogged MacArthur and Nimitz throughout the war. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.


Three Years in the Pacific;

Three Years in the Pacific;

Author: William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-24

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780469560956

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Pacific Presences

Pacific Presences

Author: Lucie Carreau

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9789088905919

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Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their disp.


War Under the Pacific

War Under the Pacific

Author: Keith Wheeler

Publisher: Time Life Medical

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780783557083

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Text and illustrations describe submarine warfare in the Pacific during World War II.


Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1)

Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1)

Author: Tod Olson

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0545928125

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LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact, they will be left stranded without food or water hundreds of miles from civilization. Eight men. Three inflatable rafts. Sixty-eight million square miles of ocean. What will it take to make it back alive?


The Bookseller

The Bookseller

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1883

Total Pages: 1632

ISBN-13:

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