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Author : Stanley Woodburn Kirby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The War Against Japan: The decisive battles written by Stanley Woodburn Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antony Preston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890092934
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Decisive Battles of the Pacific War written by Antony Preston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of all the battles fought in the Pacific in World War II, nine stand out as the most important. The nine battles presented in this highly illustrated and authorative work edited by the noted naval historian, Antony Preston, are those which were noteworthy in both their scope and significance throughout the three and a half year os war against Imperial Japan. Pearly Harbor drew the United States into the war with a surprise attack. Coral Sea checked the Japanese advance.Midway turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. Guadalcanal, Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf , the air war against Japan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa broke the back of Imperial Japan and brought victory to the Allies. The hand-to-hand fighting, the atomic holocaust and the epic naval battles are told brilliantly by an international team of historians and illustrated with hundreds of photographs, technical illustrations and maps, some of them n color, making this wwork a must for the library of any military historian or enthusiast whose interest is in World War II." --Jacket flap.
Author : Geoffrey Regan
Publisher : Abbeville Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558594319
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Decisive Battles written by Geoffrey Regan and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting and thought-provoking book, military historian Geoffrey Regan has selected fifty of the most decisive battles of world history. As the author explains, the decisiveness of these battles lies not only in the completeness of victory or defeat for either side, but also in the longer-term impact they have had on the course of history. The scope of the book is majestic. It starts with Salamis, where the Greeks put an end to Persian attempts to overwhelm their country. Other battles of the Ancient World include Zama, where Carthaginian power was finally crushed; Actium, which ushered in the Rome of the emperors; and Adrianople, which first demonstrated the potential of the mounted warrior to defeat the legions of Rome. Moving onto the Medieval World, famous battlessuch as Hastings and the fall of Constantinople - are set beside less well-known but equally crucial encounters such as Lechfeld and Ain Jalut. Then there are the great conflicts of the colonial age, from Plassey to Quebec, and battles such as Saratoga and Sedan that witnessed the birth of nations. From the present century, key engagements of the World Wars - including the Marne, Midway, El Alamein and Stalingrad - are featured, as are more recent conflicts whose reverberations are still very much with us - Dien Bien Phu, the Six Days War, and Operation Desert Storm. Geoffrey Regan not only examines the strategic context and long-term outcome of each battle, but also vividly brings to life the course of the fighting, the commanders and participants, and the significance of innovations in weaponry. Numerous maps help to explain tactics and strategy, while the many illustrations add a further dramatic dimension to this stimulating book.
Author : Major General S Woodburn Kirby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783316830
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book History of the Second World War written by Major General S Woodburn Kirby and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume in the series of five in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War which recount the war against Japan covers the period from late 1943 and the Allied High Command in the theatre under Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Author : John Prados
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101516615
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Normandy Crucible written by John Prados and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II. The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced in history. But the greatest of clashes would prove to be the crucible in which the outcome of World War II would be decided. Author John Prados tells the story of how and why the tactics and battle plans of Normandy proved so formative, and reconstructs the climactic Allied Normandy breakout from both sides of the battle lines.
Author : Major General S Woodburn Kirby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783316823
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book History of the Second World War written by Major General S Woodburn Kirby and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume in the series of five in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War which recount the war against Japan covers the period from late 1943 and the Allied High Command in the theatre under Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526758318
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Saipan 1944 written by John Grehan and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment. After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway and other islands in the Pacific, by 1944, the Japanese had been pushed back onto the defensive. Yet there was no sign of an end to the war, as the Japanese mainland was beyond the reach of land-based heavy bombers. So, in the spring of 1944, the focus of attention turned to the Mariana Islands – Guam, Saipan and Tinian – which were close enough to Tokyo to place the Japanese capital within the operational range of the new Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The attack upon Saipan, the most heavily-defended of the Marianas, took the Japanese by surprise, but over the course of more than three weeks, the 29,000 Japanese defenders defied the might of 71,000 US Marines and infantry, supported by fifteen battleships and eleven cruisers. The storming of the beaches and the mountainous interior cost the US troops dearly, in what was the most-costly battle to date in the Pacific War. Eventually, after three weeks of savage fighting, which saw the Japanese who refused to surrender being burned to death in their caves, the enemy commander, Lieutenant General Saito, was left with just 3,000 able-bodied men and he ordered them to deliver a final suicide banzai charge. With the wounded limping behind, along with numbers of civilians, the Japanese overran two US battalions, before the 4,500 men were wiped out. It was the largest banzai attack of the Pacific War. As well as placing the Americans within striking distance of Tokyo, the capture of Saipan also opened the way for General MacArthur to mount his invasion of the Philippines and resulted in the resignation of the Japanese Prime Minister Tojo. One Japanese admiral admitted that ‘Our war was lost with the loss of Saipan’. This is a highly illustrated story of what US General Holland Smith called ‘the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive’. It was, he added, the offensive that ‘opened the way to the Japanese home islands’.
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848584318
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Turning the Tide written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century. It involved more combatants, and a wider range of battlefield terrain than any other conflict in history, from the frozen plains of Russia to the baking Libyan desert, and from the atolls of the Pacific to the skies over Britain. In Turning the Tide, Nigel Cawthorne has taken a fresh look at the crucial battles which decided the outcome of the Second World War, beginning with the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, a feat that boosted the morale of a nation during its darkest hour, and reaching a climactic end with the final bloody reckoning between the Red Army and the Third Reich amongst the ruins of Berlin.
Author : Stanley Woodburn Kirby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The War Against Japan: The decisive battles written by Stanley Woodburn Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526758377
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Battle of Midway written by John Grehan and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands on 7 December 1941, had severely damaged the United States Pacific Fleet but had not destroyed it, for the fleet’s aircraft carrier force had been at sea when the Japanese struck. This meant that, despite the overwhelming success of Japanese military forces across the Pacific, US carrier-based aircraft could still attack Japanese targets. After the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May 1942, in which both sides had lost one carrier, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, calculated that the US had only two serviceable carriers left. If those remaining carriers could be lured into a battle with the Combined Fleet and destroyed, nothing could stop the Japanese achieving complete control of the South Pacific. It would take the United States many months, even with its massive industrial muscle, to rebuild its carried fleet if it was destroyed, by which time Japan would be able to secure the raw materials needed to keep its war machine functioning and to build all the bases it required across the Pacific, which would enable its aircraft to dominate the entire region. Aware of the sensitivity of the Americans towards Hawaii after the Battle of Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto believed that if he attacked there again, the US commander, Admiral Nimitz would be certain to commit all his strength to its defence. Yamamoto selected the furthest point of the Hawaiian Islands, the Naval Air Station on the Midway Atoll, for his attack, which was beyond the range of most US land-based aircraft. Yamamoto launched his attack on 4 June 1942. But the US had intercepted and deciphered Japanese signals and Nimitz, with three not two aircraft carriers, knew exactly Yamamoto’s plans. Yamamoto had hoped to draw the US carriers into his trap but instead he sailed into an ambush. The four-day battle resulted in the loss of all four Japanese aircraft carriers, the US losing only one. The Japanese were never able to recover from these losses, and it was the Americans who were able to take control of the Pacific. The Battle of Midway, unquestionably, marked the turning point in the war against Japan.
Author : F. R. Sedgwick
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783315192
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Special Campaign Series: THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 1904 to 1905: The Campaign in Manchuria, Second Period The Decisive Battles 22nd Aug to 17 Oct written by F. R. Sedgwick and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first major military victory in the modern era of an Asian power over a European one. Military scholars continue to debate the historical significance of the war. Good coverage is given to the Battle of Liaoyang. Post-war reports conclusively illustrated the battlefield destructiveness of this conflict.
Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 9781526758309
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (583 download)
Download or read book Saipan 1944 written by John Grehan and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway and other islands in the Pacific, by 1944, the Japanese had been pushed back onto the defensive. Yet there was no sign of an end to the war, as the Japanese mainland was beyond the reach of land-based heavy bombers. So, in the spring of 1944, the focus of attention turned to the Mariana Islands - Guam, Saipan and Tinian - which were close enough to Tokyo to place the Japanese capital within the operational range of the new Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The attack upon Saipan, the most heavily-defended of the Marianas, took the Japanese by surprise, but over the course of more than three weeks, the 29,000 Japanese defenders defied the might of 71,000 US Marines and infantry, supported by fifteen battleships and eleven cruisers. The storming of the beaches and the mountainous interior cost the US troops dearly, in what was the most-costly battle to date in the Pacific War. Eventually, after three weeks of savage fighting, which saw the Japanese who refused to surrender being burned to death in their caves, the enemy commander, Lieutenant General Saito, was left with just 3,000 able-bodied men and he ordered them to deliver a final suicide banzai charge. With the wounded limping behind, along with numbers of civilians, the Japanese overran two US battalions, before the 4,500 men were wiped out. It was the largest banzai attack of the Pacific War. As well as placing the Americans within striking distance of Tokyo, the capture of Saipan also opened the way for General MacArthur to mount his invasion of the Philippines and resulted in the resignation of the Japanese Prime Minister Tojo. One Japanese admiral admitted that 'Our war was lost with the loss of Saipan'. This is a highly illustrated story of what US General Holland Smith called 'the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive'. It was, he added, the offensive that 'opened the way to the Japanese home islands'.
Author : F. R. Sedgwick
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783315192
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Special Campaign Series: THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 1904 to 1905: The Campaign in Manchuria, Second Period The Decisive Battles 22nd Aug to 17 Oct written by F. R. Sedgwick and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first major military victory in the modern era of an Asian power over a European one. Military scholars continue to debate the historical significance of the war. Good coverage is given to the Battle of Liaoyang. Post-war reports conclusively illustrated the battlefield destructiveness of this conflict.
Author : Ralph F. Wetterhahn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147666997X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Early Air War in the Pacific written by Ralph F. Wetterhahn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II. Details are included from two expeditions conducted by the author that reveal the location of an American pilot missing in the Philippines since 1942 and clear up a controversial account involving famed Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and U.S. Navy pilot James "Pug" Southerland.
Author : Russell F. Weigley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217073
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Age of Battles written by Russell F. Weigley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." --Gunther E. Rothenberg " A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." --John Bayley, The London Review of Books "What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." --Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
Author : Chris Glenn
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399014145
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Sekigahara written by Chris Glenn and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of the greatest samurai battle in history explores its momentous significance as well as the epic combat itself. Finally unified under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japan quickly fractured once again after his death in 1598. The warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu mounted a fearsome opposition to Hideyoshi’s loyal followers. As the country divided into two great armies, East and West, each side scrambled to take control of strategically vital highways and castles. These sieges culminated in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara. Fought on October 21st, 1600, the battle lasted just six hours, but saw the deaths of an estimated 30,000 samurai, the destruction of a numerous noble families, and the creation of the Tokugawa Shogunate that would rule Japan for the next 260 years. The loyalist forces, despite their superior numbers and excellent battle formations, were defeated. In his exploration of the battle, Chris Glenn reveals the developments that led up to the outbreak of war and the characters involved. He details how the battle itself unfolded, and the aftermath. The weapons and armor of the time are also fully explained, along with little known customs of the samurai and their warfare.
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Author : Edgar Wollstone
Publisher : AJS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Greatest Battles of WWII [5 Books in 1] - Epic Battles That Changed History written by Edgar Wollstone and published by AJS. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitler, who was responsible for the execution of a million Jews, finally kills himself by pulling a pistol at his head, an ignoble death for a tyrannical leader. When Germany attacked Poland, it pushed the warring nations to another brutal war and thrust the world into a vortex of chaotic bloodshed. The Soviet changed sides, pledging allegiance first to Germany and then to the Allies. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, the United States of America is finally drawn into the war reopening the pacific theatre in all grandiose in the dramatic Battle of Atlantic. Japan’s island Okinawa becomes a bone of contention and Allied powers engage in leapfrogging to reach and invade mainland Japan, but they face stout defense. While Japan and Allies lock horns in the decisive Battle of Okinawa and Battle of Midway and D-Day finally seals victory for the Allied powers, Stalin and Hitler fight each other in the prestigious Battle of Stalingrad. Did Hitler award his country’s highest Medal of Honor to a British spy? What is the story of deception that Allied powers invent to ensnare Hitler? How did the Okinawans resist when their island was the battleground for two mighty powers? How did the once-magnificent Stalingrad city become a rubble-strewn city of ghosts? How did the serene beaches of Omaha earn the moniker ‘deadly Omaha’? Read this book that tells the story of commanders, soldiers, and civilians that resisted and fought the five deadliest battles of World War Two.
