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Bloody Ridge and Beyond

Author : Marlin Groft
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698148258
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Ridge and Beyond written by Marlin Groft and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By a veteran of Lt. Col. Merritt A. Edson's battalion, and author of the Dick Winters biography Biggest Brother and coauthor of A Higher Call On the killing ground that was the island of Guadalcanal, a 2,000-yard-long ridge rose from the jungle canopy. Behind it lay the all-important air base of Henderson Field. And if Henderson Field fell, it would mean the almost certain death or capture of all 12,500 marines on the island . . . But the marines positioned on the ridge were no normal fighters. They were tough, hard-fighting men of the Edson’s Raiders; an elite fighting unit within an already elite U.S. Marine Corps. Handpicked for their toughness, and submitted to a rigorous training program to weed out those less fit, they were the Marine Corps’s best of the best. For two hellish nights in September 1942, about 840 United States Marines—commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Merritt Austin “Red Mike” Edson—fought one of the most pivotal battles of World War II in the Pacific, clinging desperately to their position on what would soon be known as Bloody Ridge. Wave after wave of attacking Japanese soldiers were repelled by the Raiders, who knew that defeat and retreat were simply not possible options. But in the end, the defenders had prevailed against the odds. Bloody Ridge and Beyond is the story of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion, which showed courage and valor in the face of overwhelming numbers, as told by Marlin Groft, a man who was a member of this incredible fighting force.

Death on Bloody Ridge

Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922896276
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Death on Bloody Ridge written by David W. Cameron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers’ Trench, Turkish Quinn’s, The Chessboard, The Nek, The Farm, Hill Q, Chunuk Bair, and Hill 971. The offensive was designed to allow the allied forces to ‘break out’ of the Anzac beachhead below the Sari Bair Range. The capture of Chunuk Bair by the New Zealanders resulted in some of the bloodiest fighting at Gallipoli and was key to the entire August offensive. While it was taken and held for a few days - it’s recapture by the Turks on 10 August 1915 decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign. Within four months the Allies were forced to evacuate the peninsula, leaving it to the Turks - a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire Death on Bloody Ridge: Chunuk Bair - the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign, focuses solely on this one decisive battle.

Stalin's Last War

Author : Alan J. Levine
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078642088X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Last War written by Alan J. Levine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often referred to as "The Forgotten War," the Korean War was the only post-World War II combat between major powers. According to evidence provided in this study, it was also a crucial episode of the Cold War--more crucial, perhaps, than the war in Vietnam. This military and political history of the Korean War endeavors to give a fresh and less than fashionable account of the war. Utilizing both immediately postwar impressions and newly available evidence from Communist sources, it places the events in Korea into the larger framework of the early 1950s period of the Cold War. Beginning chapters discuss the escalation of early Cold War-era world events, from the final days of World War II to the first days of the Korean War, and detail the inevitability of Western intervention in the Korean conflict. The chapters that follow supply a broad account of the military aspect of the war, focusing on its "grand strategy," what is now known of the Communist side in Korea, the problems and achievements of the South Korean forces, and the often underestimated war in the air. Considerable attention is also given to matters in Europe and elsewhere, such as German rearmament and the Japanese peace treaty, that are revealed to have been not far removed from Korea. The author espouses several original theories regarding Stalin's interpretation of the Korean conflict as a preliminary phase of World War III and the probability that the Communists did intend to extend the war beyond both the confines of Korea and the armistice negotiations of 1951. Concluding commentary attributes the end of the first phase of the Cold War to the Korean armistice, but the nature of the remaining phases to the polarization of powers that was intensified by the fight for ideological dominance in Korea.

Richard Tregaskis

Author : Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826362885
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Richard Tregaskis written by Ray E. Boomhower and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Tregaskis was one of only two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, and in his notebook he captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II's most legendary battles--and it served as the premise for his bestselling book, Guadalcanal Diary. One of the most distinguished combat reporters to cover World War II, Tregaskis later reported on Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. In 1964 the Overseas Press Club recognized his first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances by awarding him its George Polk Award for his book Vietnam Diary. Boomhower's riveting book is the first to tell Tregaskis's gripping life story, concentrating on his intrepid reporting experiences during World War II and his fascination with war and its effect on the men who fought it.

Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac 2022

Author : Publishers Weekly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510768904
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac 2022 written by Publishers Weekly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Announcing the first edition of Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac 2022. Designed to help authors, editors, agents, publicists, and anyone else working in book publishing understand the changing landscape of book publishing, it is an essential reference for anyone who works in the industry. Written by industry veterans and co-published with Publishers Weekly magazine, here is the first-ever book to offer a comprehensive view of how modern book publishing works. It offers history and context, as well as up-to-the-minute information for anyone interested in working in the field and for authors looking to succeed with a publisher or by self-publishing. You’ll find here information on: Finding an agent Self-publishing Amazon Barnes & Noble and other book chains Independent bookstores Special sales (non-traditional book markets) Distribution Foreign markets Publicity, Marketing, Advertising Subsidiary rights Book production E-books and audiobooks Diversity, equity, and inclusion across the industry And more! Whether you’re a seasoned publishing professional, just starting out in the business, or simply interested in how book publishing works, the Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac will be an annual go-to reference guide and an essential, authoritative resource that will make that knowledge accessible to a broad audience. Featuring original essays from and interviews with some of the industry's most insightful and innovative voices along with highlights of PW's news coverage over the last year, the Publishers Weekly Book Publishing Almanac is an indispensable guide for publishers, editors, agents, publicists, authors and anyone who wants better to understand this business, its history, and its mysteries.

Lonely Planet South Pacific

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1786577348
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet South Pacific written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 best-selling guide to the South Pacific* Lonely Planet South Pacific is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Laze on New Caledonia's white sand beaches; learn traditional dance in Tahiti or hike through Fiji's 'Garden Island', all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the South Pacific and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's South Pacific Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, environmental issues, culture, arts, cuisine, health, language Over 110 colour maps Covers Easter Island, Fiji, Rarotonga, the Cook Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Tonga, Vanuatu and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet South Pacific, our most comprehensive guide to all the islands of the South Pacific, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *Best-selling guide to South Pacific. Source: Nielsen BookScan. Australia, UK and USA

I'm Staying with My Boys

Author : Jim Proser
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429996595
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book I'm Staying with My Boys written by Jim Proser and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off 3,000 Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after his 15-member unit was reduced to three men. At Iwo Jima he single-handedly destroyed an enemy blockhouse, allowing his unit to capture an airfield. Minutes later he was killed by an enemy artillery round. He was the only Marine in World War II to have received the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, and a Purple Heart and is arguably the most famous Marine of all time. I'm Staying with My Boys is the only family-authorized biography of Basilone, and it features photographs never before published. Distinctive among military biographies, the story is told in first person, allowing readers to experience his transformation, forged in the horrors of battle, from aimless youth to war hero known as "Manila John".

United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Okinawa: the Last Battle

Author : Roy E. Appleman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894071
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Okinawa: the Last Battle written by Roy E. Appleman and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 2 tables, 3 charts, 21 maps and 88 illustrations] On 3 October 1944 American forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas received a directive to seize positions in the Ryukyu Islands (Nansei Shoto). Okinawa is the most important island of the Ryukyu Group, the threshold of the four main islands of Japan. The decision to invade the Ryukyus signalized the readiness of the United States to penetrate the inner ring of Japanese defenses. For the enemy, failure on Okinawa meant that he must prepare to resist an early invasion of the homeland or surrender. The present volume [Of the United States Army in WWII series] concerns one of the most bitterly fought battles of the Pacific war, in which the Army, the Marine Corps, and the Navy all played a vital part. In order to make the Army’s role and the campaign as a whole as intelligible as possible the historians have treated in detail the operations of the Marine Corps units attached to Tenth Army, and have also sketched the contribution of the Navy both in preliminary operations against Okinawa and in the campaign itself. Another characteristic of this as of other volumes on Pacific campaigns is that tactical action is treated on levels lower than those usually presented in the history of operations in the European theaters. The physical limitations of the terrain fought over in the Pacific restricted the number and size of the units which could be employed and brought into sharp focus the operations of regiments, battalions, and smaller units. A wealth of verified material on such operations is available for all theaters, but it is only that of the Pacific which can be used extensively, since in other theaters the actions of smaller units are lost in the broad sweep of great distances and large forces. The description of small-unit action has the merit of giving the nonprofessional reader a fuller record of the nature of the battlefield in modern war, and the professional reader a better insight into troop leading.

Guadalcanal: the First Offensive

Author : John Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Guadalcanal: the First Offensive written by John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the first victory over Japanese ground forces, told at the level of companies, platoons, and even individuals, demonstrates the relationship between air, ground, and surface forces in modern warfare.

United States Army in World War II, War in the Pacific

Author : Roy Edgar Appleman
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160613180
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book United States Army in World War II, War in the Pacific written by Roy Edgar Appleman and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Pub 5-11-1. By Roy E. Appleman, et al. Facsimile reprint of the 1948 edition with a new title page and paper cover. Cover title reads: Okinawa, the Last Battle. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. The maps are in a separate envelope that is sold with the book. Discusses the final battle in the Pacific in World War 2. The battle is also called Operation Iceberg. Okinawa is the most important island in the Ryukyu Islands group. Other related products: United States Army in World War II, War in the Pacific, Guadalcanal, the First Offensive --Print Hardcover format is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00067-9 Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East --Print Paperback format is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00160-8 When the Akimotos Went to War: An Untold Story Of Family, Patriotism and Sacrifice During World War II is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-088-00001-1 World War II resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/world-war-ii

Okinawa

Author : Roy Edgar Appleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Okinawa written by Roy Edgar Appleman and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Okinawa: the last battle: Here the Imperial Army braced for its last stand. From the bloody victories that brought U.S. forces to Okinawa, to the desperate, suicidal resistance of the Japanese, this is the complete story of the final beachhead battle of the Pacific campaign.

Okinawa

Author : United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Okinawa written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Okinawa: the last battle: Here the Imperial Army braced for its last stand. From the bloody victories that brought U.S. forces to Okinawa, to the desperate, suicidal resistance of the Japanese, this is the complete story of the final beachhead battle of the Pacific campaign.

Guadalcanal Marine

Author : Kerry Lane
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1578066646
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Guadalcanal Marine written by Kerry Lane and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lane, the hero of Suicide Creek, shares a powerful recollection of amphibiousassaults and fierce jungle warfare.

Okinawa: the Last Battle

Author : Roy Edgar Appleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Okinawa: the Last Battle written by Roy Edgar Appleman and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Okinawa: the last battle: Here the Imperial Army braced for its last stand. From the bloody victories that brought U.S. forces to Okinawa, to the desperate, suicidal resistance of the Japanese, this is the complete story of the final beachhead battle of the Pacific campaign.

United States Army in World War II.: The army services forces

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book United States Army in World War II.: The army services forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Old Corps

Author : Johnnie M. Clark
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345358158
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book The Old Corps written by Johnnie M. Clark and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Canal

Author : Ore J. Marion
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811741516
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book On the Canal written by Ore J. Marion and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward, gripping tale from the Marines that stormed ashore on Guadalcanal in World War II. Told with humor and honesty in a no-holds-barred approach that only a Marine who was there could tell.