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Book Synopsis Triumph in the Philippines by : Robert Ross Smith
Download or read book Triumph in the Philippines written by Robert Ross Smith and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reconquest of the Philippine archipelago (exclusive of Leyte), with detailed accounts of Sixth Army and Eighth Army operations on Luzon, as well as of the Eighth Army's reoccupation of the southern Philippines.
Book Synopsis Last Stand on Bataan by : Christopher L. Kolakowski
Download or read book Last Stand on Bataan written by Christopher L. Kolakowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese invasion. Much of the five-month campaign was waged on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island. Despite dwindling supplies and dim prospects for support, the garrison held out as long as possible and significantly delayed the Japanese timetable for conquest in the Pacific. In the end, the Japanese forced the largest capitulation in U.S. military history. The defenders were hailed as heroes and the legacy of their determined resistance marks the Philippines today. Drawing on accounts from American and Filipino participants and archival sources, this book chronicles these critical months of the Pacific War, from the first air strikes to the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.
Author :Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Publisher :Government Printing Office ISBN 13 :9780160899539 Total Pages :784 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (995 download)
Book Synopsis US Army in World War II, War in the Pacific, Triumph in the Philipines (Paperback) by : Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History
Download or read book US Army in World War II, War in the Pacific, Triumph in the Philipines (Paperback) written by Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Triumph in the Philippines by : Robert Ross Smith
Download or read book Triumph in the Philippines written by Robert Ross Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Triumph in the Philippines by : Robert Ross Smith
Download or read book Triumph in the Philippines written by Robert Ross Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reconquest of the Philippine archipelago (exclusive of Leyte), with detailed accounts of Sixth Army and Eighth Army operations on Luzon, as well as of the Eighth Army's reoccupation of the southern Philippines.
Book Synopsis The Butchers, the Baker by : Victor L. Mapes
Download or read book The Butchers, the Baker written by Victor L. Mapes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve hours after Pearl Harbor, Clark Field in the Philippines was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Among the survivors was Private Victor L. Mapes, who spent the next three years fleeing from and then being imprisoned by the Japanese military machine. When the tide of battle in the Pacific turned against the Japanese, Mapes experienced more harrowing conditions than before. After his unmarked prison ship was torpedoed by an American submarine, the wounded author struggled in the water against the elements and the enemy, as the Japanese tried to kill the escaping POWs. Mapes' memoir chronicles a gruelling three-year ordeal that was punctuated by strange and often amusing encounters with fellow Americans, Japanese, Filipinos, and the fierce Moros of Mindanao Island. The memoir includes photographs and maps, as well as a bibliography and index.
Book Synopsis US Army in World War II: War in the Pacific, Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls (Paperback) by :
Download or read book US Army in World War II: War in the Pacific, Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls (Paperback) written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tears in the Darkness by : Michael Norman
Download or read book Tears in the Darkness written by Michael Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.
Download or read book Peleliu written by Bill D. Ross and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Undefeated written by Bill Sloan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II. Bill Sloan, “a master of the combat narrative” (Dallas Morning News), tells the story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. For four months they fought toe to toe against overwhelming enemy numbers—and forced the Japanese to pay a heavy cost in blood. After the surrender came the infamous Bataan Death March, where up to eighteen thousand American and Filipino prisoners died as they marched sixty-five miles under the most hellish conditions imaginable. Interwoven throughout this gripping narrative are the harrowing personal experiences of dozens of American soldiers, airmen, and Marines, based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors. Undefeated chronicles one of the great sagas of World War II—and celebrates a resounding triumph of the human spirit.
Book Synopsis The GI War Against Japan by : Peter Schrijvers
Download or read book The GI War Against Japan written by Peter Schrijvers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title Even in the midst of World War II, Americans could not help thinking of the lands across the Pacific as a continuation of the American Western frontier. But this perception only heightened American soldiers' frustration as the hostile region ferociously resisted their attempts at control. The GI War Against Japan recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theater to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Schrijvers brings to life the GIs’ struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Amidst the frustration and despair of this war, American soldiers abandoned themselves to an escalating rage that presaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The GI’s story is, first and foremost, the story of America's resounding victory over Japan. At the same time, however, the reader will recognize in the extraordinarily high price paid for this victory chilling forebodings of the West’s ultimate defeat in Asia’and America’s in Vietnam.
Book Synopsis World War II in the Pacific by : Stanley Sandler
Download or read book World War II in the Pacific written by Stanley Sandler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Unconditional Defeat by : Thomas W. Zeiler
Download or read book Unconditional Defeat written by Thomas W. Zeiler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unconditional Defeat-the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this "war without mercy" could only come to one conclusion: the complete, unconditional defeat of Japan by a mobilized, overwhelming, vengeful United States. Zeiler describes these final 22 months of the Pacific War as a story of contrasts. While the U.S. launched a methodical, smothering attack with all the means at its disposal, Japan fought a fierce yet hopeless defense with diminishing supplies. By November 1943, Japan lacked the necessities not just for victory, as in the earlier phases of the war, but for adequate defense. The Japanese had no options. The strategic planning rested with the Americans. Zeiler's gripping and thorough overview discusses other contrasts between the two foes. The Americans planned multiple advances in the Pacific Ocean and on the Asian mainland. They used a massive number of troops, devised and adopted new amphibious techniques, and deployed the new nuclear category of weapons. The Japanese stubbornly but desperately clung to their territory, often with the basest of defenses. By August 1945, the United States' forces at sea, on land, and in the air had brought Japan near complete defeat. In addition, the Japanese Empire was diplomatically isolated. Japanese politics was in turmoil, the government faced rebellion, and the Emperor stood on the brink of extinction. Wracked by the destruction of the homeland from the air and blockade by sea, Japanese society veered near chaos and the people peered into the abyss of an uncertain future. In the meantime, America's military had experienced such horrors at the hands of Japan that the U.S. made the difficult decision to unleash the atomic bomb. Despite the stark differences between the U.S. and Japan, argues Zeiler, there was one aspect of the war that both sides held i
Book Synopsis Counting the Days by : Craig B. Smith
Download or read book Counting the Days written by Craig B. Smith and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific War." As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians as well as military personnel. Two of the prisoners were captured on the second day of the war and spent the entire war in prison camps: Garth Dunn, a young Marine captured on Guam who faced a death rate in a Japanese prison 10 times that in battle; and Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, who suffered the ignominy of being Japanese POW number 1. Simon and Lydia Peters were European expatriates living in the Philippines; the Japanese confiscated their house and belongings, imprisoned them, and eventually released them to a harrowing jungle existence caught between Philippine guerilla raids and Japanese counterattacks. Mitsuye Takahashi was a U.S. citizen of Japanese descent living in Malibu, California, who was imprisoned by the United States for the duration of the war, disrupting her life and separating her from all she owned. Masashi Itoh was a Japanese soldier who remained hidden in the jungles of Guam, held captive by his own conscience and beliefs until 1960, 15 years after the end of the war. This is the story of their struggles to stay alive, the small daily triumphs that kept them going—and for some, their almost miraculous survival.
Book Synopsis US Army in WW2: War Department, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare (Hardcover format only) by :
Download or read book US Army in WW2: War Department, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare (Hardcover format only) written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with strategic planning in the midwar era from January 1943 through the summer of 1944. This is the story of the hopes, fears, struggles, frustrations, and triumphs of the Army strategic planners coming to grips with the problems of the offensive phase of coalition warfare. Basic to this story is the account of planning by General George C. Marshall and his advisers in the great debate on European strategy which followed the Allied landings in North Africa and continued to the penetration of the German frontier in September 1944. During this period the great international conferences from Casablanca in January 1943 to the second Quebec in September 1944 were held and the Allies formulated the grand strategy of military victory. The volume follows the plans, issues, and decisions to the end of the summer of 1944, when the problems of winning the war began to come up against the challenges of victory and peace, and a new era was beginning for the Army Chief of Staff and his advisers. Military soldiers, veterans, especially World War II veterans adn their families, and students studying World War II may enjoy reading this primary source document that accounts the leadership and strategy during World War Two years 1943-1944. Related products: United States Army in World War 2, War Department, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940-1943 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00056-3 Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-2010: Portraits & Biographical Sketches of the United States Army's Senior Officer is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00538-7 Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army: Portraits & Biographical Sketches 2010 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00537-9 World War II resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world...
Book Synopsis War in the Pacific by : Bernard C. Nalty
Download or read book War in the Pacific written by Bernard C. Nalty and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collective effort of ten military historians describes World War II's Pacific campaign, describing each step of the conflict with clarity and in exhaustive detail. Color maps. Photos, many in color.
Book Synopsis THE APPROACH TO THE PHILIPPINES. by : Robert Ross Smith
Download or read book THE APPROACH TO THE PHILIPPINES. written by Robert Ross Smith and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
