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  • Tarawa 1943

    The turning of the tide

    Series Libro 77 - Campaign
    An detailed examination of this bloody Pacific battle, featuring maps, artwork and archive photography.The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd ... Leer más

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  • Iwo Jima 1945

    The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi

    Series Libro 81 - Campaign
    A definitive account of the battle of Iwo Jima, from its origins to its hard-fought conclusion.One of the decisive battles of the Second World War in the Pacific, Iwo Jima was described by Lieutenant-General Holland Smith, Commander Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, as 'The most savage and most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps' - a titanic struggle that eclipsed all that had gone before ... Leer más

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  • Battle of Guadalcanal (True Combat)

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    Three days later a Japanese force landed at night. They ambushed a 26-man patrol, cutting the Marines down with hidden machine guns. The three survivors who made it back told their fellow Marines that the wounded had been hacked to death with sabres. From then on, the Marines decided they would be every bit as brutal...Read about the US Marine Landings on Guadalcanal; the desperate fight to take ... Leer más

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  • The Battle for Tinian

    Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan

    This vivid history chronicles the decisive US naval campaign that secured the Japanese island of Tinian—the site that would launch the end of WWII.In July 1944, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army, and Air Corps descended on the Pacific island of Saipan, just three miles away from the Japanese stronghold on the island of Tinian. There had been 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan before the ... Leer más

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  • The Do-Or-Die Men

    The 1st Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal

    The gripping true account of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion—from its formation and training to its heroic baptism under fire in the battles of Tulagi and Guadalcanal.No campaign in World War II was undertaken with as many shortcomings as Operation Watchtower—the invasion of Guadalcanal in the summer of 1942. Rushed into action with little training, virtually no enemy intelligence, and using ... Leer más

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  • War at the End of the World

    Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945

    A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea.“A meaty, engrossing narrative history… This will likely stand as the definitive account of the New Guinea campaign.”—The Christian Science MonitorOne American soldier called ... Leer más

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  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Fight for the Pacific, 1945

    de Andrew Rawson ...
    On 19 February 1945, Operation Detachment began with US marine forces storming Iwo Jima, aiming to capture the island and its airfields. This was the first campaign on Japanese soil and would result in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. A brutal example of war at all costs, the defending garrison fought to almost the last man; it was a fight they couldn't hope to win against the ... Leer más

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  • The Pacific War

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II.On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into World ... Leer más

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  • The Road to Victory

    From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

    No war has tested the resolve of the American people and her fighting men as did the battles in the Pacific. This book is a visual testament to the key battles fought in the Pacific.On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be ... Leer más

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  • MacArthur's Victory

    The War in New Guinea, 1943-1944

    de Harry Gailey ...
    A GREAT WARRIOR AT THE PEAK OF HIS POWERSIn March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur faced an enemy who, in the space of a few months, captured Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and, from their base at Raubaul in New Britain, threaten Australia. Upon his retreat to Australia, MacArthur hoped to find enough men and matérielfor a quick offensive against the Japanese. Instead, he ... Leer más

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  • Coral and Blood

    de Eric Hammel ...
    CORAL AND BLOOD: The U.S. Marine Corps Pacific Campaign by Eric Hammel In only a lifetime, the long United States Marine Corps campaign across the Pacific Ocean has become the stuff of enduring legend. We are down to just a few Pacific Warriors who lived it and can still tell us about it from their own experiences. Now, in Coral and Blood, military historian Eric Hammel, who has specialized in ... Leer más

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