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Challenge For The Pacific

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Author : Robert Leckie
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2010-10-26

Challenge For The Pacific written by Robert Leckie and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with History categories.

From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy’s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease. Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world.

Challenge For The Pacific

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Author : Robert Leckie
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2010-10-26

Challenge For The Pacific

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Author : Robert Leckie
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1999-05-06

Challenge For The Pacific written by Robert Leckie and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-06 with History categories.

"[An] exciting history. . . . Here again are the heroics of the carrier "Hornet" and her sister ship "Enterprise"; the fantastic gallery of blood-and-guts heroes; and the tragic power struggle between the Marines and Navy. . . . I know of no one who writes better of the peculiarly vicious warfare that took place on the Pacific islands. Leckie puts you in the foxhole and with a few words makes you see the terror of hand-to-hand fighting".--John Toland, "The New York Times Book Review"

Under The Gun

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Author : David H. Capie
language : en
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Release Date : 2003

Under The Gun written by David H. Capie and has been published by Victoria University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Disarmament categories.

This study examines challenges presented by small arms and light weapons in the Pacific. It focuses primarily on the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, although it also considers other members of the Pacific Islands Forum.