Midnight In The Pacific

Download Midnight In The Pacific full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Midnight In The Pacific ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Midnight in the Pacific

Midnight in the Pacific
Author :
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Total Pages : 538
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780306824609
ISBN-13 : 0306824604
Rating : 4/5 (604 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Midnight in the Pacific by : Joseph Wheelan

Download or read book Midnight in the Pacific written by Joseph Wheelan and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping narrative history -- the first in over twenty years -- of America's first major offensive of World War II, the brutal, no-quarter-given campaign to take Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal From early August until mid-November of 1942, US Marines, sailors, and pilots struggled for dominance against an implacable enemy: Japanese soldiers, inculcated with the bushido tradition of death before dishonor, avatars of bayonet combat -- close-up, personal, and gruesome. The glittering prize was Henderson Airfield. Japanese planners knew that if they neutralized the airfield, the battle was won. So did the Marines who stubbornly defended it. The outcome of the long slugfest remained in doubt under the pressure of repeated Japanese air, land, and sea operations. And losses were heavy. At sea, in a half-dozen fiery combats, the US Navy fought the Imperial Japanese Navy to a draw, but at a cost of more than 4,500 sailors. More American sailors died in these battles off Guadalcanal than in all previous US wars, and each side lost 24 warships. On land, more than 1,500 soldiers and Marines died, and the air war claimed more than 500 US planes. Japan's losses on the island were equally devastating -- starving Japanese soldiers called it "the island of death." But when the attritional struggle ended, American Marines, sailors, and airmen had halted the Japanese juggernaut that for five years had whirled through Asia and the Pacific. Guadalcanal was America's first major ground victory against Japan and, most importantly, the Pacific War's turning point. Published on the 75th anniversary of the battle and utilizing vivid accounts written by the combatants at Guadalcanal, along with Marine Corps and Army archives and oral histories, Midnight in the Pacific is both a sweeping narrative and a compelling drama of individual Marines, soldiers, and sailors caught in the crosshairs of history.


Midnight in the Pacific Related Books

Midnight in the Pacific
Language: en
Pages: 538
Authors: Joseph Wheelan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-01 - Publisher: Hachette+ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A sweeping narrative history -- the first in over twenty years -- of America's first major offensive of World War II, the brutal, no-quarter-given campaign to t
Hell in the Pacific
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Jim McEnery
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim M
Goodbye, Darkness
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: William Manchester
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-14 - Publisher: Little, Brown

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man's experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during t
Guadalcanal
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Eric Hammel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-15 - Publisher: Zenith Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On August 7, 1942, a scant nine months after Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps struck back against Japan on a small island half a world away: Guadalcanal, in the S
Guadalcanal
Language: en
Pages: 844
Authors: Richard B. Frank
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-01 - Publisher: Penguin Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.”—LA Times Book Review The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day