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Könyv Facing Fearful Odds Gregory J.W. Urwin

Facing Fearful Odds

The Siege of Wake Island

Szerző: Gregory J.W. Urwin
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: University of Nebraska Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
13 875 Ft
Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Gregory J.W. Urwin
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2002
oldal
754
EAN
9780803295629
ISBN
0803295626
Enbook ID
04924814
Kiadó
University of Nebraska Press
Súly
1050
Méretek
154 x 226 x 40

Teljes leírás

Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound psychological effect on the course of the nation's struggle. This was the battle that first raised American spirits in the dark weeks following Pearl Harbor. For sixteen suspenseful days, 449 U.S. Marines, assisted by a handful of sailors and soldiers and a few hundred civilian construction workers, withstood repeated attacks by numerically superior Japanese forces. Although Wake finally fell on 23 December 1941, its garrison made the Japanese pay an embarrassingly high price for a tiny coral outpost. Based on interviews with over seventy American and Japanese participants, the riveting, you-are-there narrative pulsates with the crack of rifles, the stutter of machine guns, the roar of cannon, and the concussion of bombs. This is a military history from the bottom up, an unforgettable reading experience told from the perspective of enlisted men and junior officers who served on the front lines. Gregory J. W. Urwin is a professor of history at Temple University.His many books include Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer, available in a Bison Books edition.

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