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  title info:
    title: Island infernos
    sub title: the US Army's Pacific War odyssey, 1944
  name:
    name part: McManus, John C.
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 637 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Prologue -- Flintlock -- Acceleration -- Consolidation -- Informed business -- "From New Guinea no one returns alive" -- Galahad and Machiavelli -- Hell on land and at sea -- Triumph and travesty -- Right way and wrong way -- The ugly midsection -- Epilogue.
  note: John C. McManus.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: p------
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Pacific Area
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: History
    temporal: World War, 1939-1945
  classification: D767 .M36 2021
  classification: 940.54/26
  identifier: 9780451475060
  identifier: 0451475062
  identifier: 9780698192775
  identifier: 2021009801
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210706
    record change date: 20220124200053.0
    record identifier: in00004549648