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The Pacific War's Island Campaigns
Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and the Bloody Road to Japan
Verlag:
Val Shushkewich Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36744994
EAN: 9798235603110
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Fr, 30.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 48.–
Beschreibung
The ocean does not remember names. But the men who crossed it do. In the winter of 1941, a sleeping fleet at anchor became the opening scene of the deadliest theater of the Second World War. What followed was not one war, but a chain of them, fought island by island, beach by beach, across a stretch of the Pacific so vast that no single mind could hold it whole. This book holds it whole. From the burning wreckage of Pearl Harbor to the black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima, from the malarial jungles of Guadalcanal to the typhoon of steel that swallowed Okinawa, THE PACIFIC WAR'S ISLAND CAMPAIGNS. is the complete, unflinching, campaign by campaign account of how the United States and its allies fought their way across an ocean, one impossible objective at a time. This is not a textbook. It is not a dry parade of dates and divisions. It is a story, told the way the men who lived it would tell it, of seventy six hours that turned a coral reef into a graveyard, of thirty six days that made a sulfur island into the costliest ground the Marine Corps ever bought, of a typhoon of kamikazes that taught an entire navy what terror without limit actually looked like. You will stand on the beach at Tarawa as the tide fails to rise and Marines wade five hundred yards through machine gun fire with nowhere to hide. You will watch five minutes. of dive bombing at Midway erase four Japanese carriers and, with them, an empire's chance of victory. You will walk the ridgelines of Peleliu with men who were never meant to be there, and you will stand at the edge of the cliffs on Saipan where a nation's propaganda convinced its own children that surrender was worse than death. Every figure in this book is real. Every casualty count is drawn from the historical record. Every commander, from Nimitz to Yamamoto, from Kuribayashi to MacArthur, speaks and acts according to what actually happened, not what makes for convenient legend. What makes this book different is not just its scope, though few single volumes carry a reader from Pearl Harbor all the way to the deck of the USS Missouri with this much granular, ground level detail. It is the refusal to let any single battle become a statistic. Guadalcanal is not a paragraph here. Iwo Jima is not a summary. Okinawa is not a footnote to the atomic bombings that followed it. Each campaign receives the space it demands, the human cost it earned, and the strategic consequence it produced. If you have ever wondered why the war in the Pacific took the shape it did, why island hopping meant leaving tens of thousands of enemy soldiers to starve rather than fighting them, why a single flag raising photograph became immortal, or why two cities had to be destroyed before an empire would finally surrender, this book answers all of it, in full, without shortcuts. Readers who found themselves unable to put down Unbroken. , Flags of Our Fathers. , or With the Old Breed. will recognize this same unrelenting, human centered intensity here, but with a sweep no single memoir could ever attempt. History does not owe us comfort. It owes us the truth of what was paid, and by whom. This book pays that debt in full. Begin on a quiet Sunday morning in Hawaii. Finish on the deck of a battleship in Tokyo Bay. In between lies the bloody road that made the modern world possible.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Anders Kingsley Thorn
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 184