Island infernos : the US Army's Pacific War odyssey, 1944 /
After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe. The challenges ahead were enormous, supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean, surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria and other tropical diseases, fighting an enem...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dutton Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2021].
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| Summary: | After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe. The challenges ahead were enormous, supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean, surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria and other tropical diseases, fighting an enemy prone to ever-more desperate and dangerous assaults. Yet the Army had proven they could fight. Now, they had to prove they could win a war. McManus moves seamlessly from the highest generals to the lowest foot soldiers, capturing the true essence of this horrible conflict. The story spans the battles for Saipan and Guam, the appalling carnage of Peleliu, General MacArthur's dramatic return to the Philippines and the grinding jungle combat to capture the island of Leyte. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 637 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780451475060 0451475062 |