I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway - Couverture rigide

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McKelvey Cleaver, Thomas

 
9781472841339: I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
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ISBN 10 : 1472841336 ISBN 13 : 9781472841339
Editeur : Osprey Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

In many popular histories of the Pacific War, the period from the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor to the US victory at Midway is often passed over because it is seen as a period of darkness. Indeed, it is easy to see the period as one of unmitigated disaster for the Allies, with the fall of the Philippines, Malaya, Burma and the Dutch East Indies, and the wholesale retreat and humiliation at the hands of Japan throughout Southeast Asia.

However, there are also stories of courage and determination in the face of overwhelming odds: the stand of the Marines at Wake Island; the fighting retreat in the Philippines that forced the Japanese to take 140 days to accomplish what they had expected would take 50; the fight against the odds at Singapore and over Java; the stirring tale of the American Volunteer Group in China; and the beginnings of resistance to further Japanese expansion. In these events, there are many individual stories that have either not been told or not been told widely which are every bit as gripping as the stories associated with the turning tide after Midway.

I Will Run Wild draws on extensive first-hand accounts and fascinating new analysis to tell the story of Americans, British, Dutch, Australians and New Zealanders taken by surprise from Pearl Harbor to Singapore that first Sunday of December 1941, who went on to fight with what they had at hand against a stronger and better-prepared foe, and in so doing built the basis for a reversal of fortune and an eventual victory.

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À propos de l?auteur

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

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Éditeur
Osprey Publishing
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1472841336
ISBN 13 
9781472841339
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781472841346: I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1472841344 ISBN 13 :  9781472841346
Editeur : Osprey Publishing, 2021
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