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Author | : John Wukovits |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0593187474 |
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For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Marines fought the Japanese nearly to the last man. In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio, a speck at the end of the Tarawa Atoll. When the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their underground bunkers—and launched one of the most brutal and bloody battles of World War II. For three straight days, attackers and defenders fought over every square inch of sand in a battle with no defined frontlines, and where there was no possibility of retreat—because there was nowhere to retreat to. It was a struggle that would leave both sides stunned and exhausted, and prove both the fighting mettle of the Americans and the fanatical devotion of the Japanese. Drawn from new sources, including participants’ letters and diaries and exclusive firsthand interviews with survivors, One Square Mile of Hell is the true story of a battle between two determined foes, neither of whom would ever look at the other in the same way again.
Author | : Robert Sherrod |
Publisher | : Skyhorse |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1626361835 |
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In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror. Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod’s battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive. This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very end, and through his writing, shares every detail.
Author | : Robert Sherrod |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620871017 |
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In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror. Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod’s battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive. This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very end, and through his writing, shares every detail.
Author | : Estate of Joseph H Alexander |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612511678 |
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Marine combat veteran and award-winning military historian Joseph Alexander takes a fresh look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. His gripping narrative, first published in 1995, has won him many prizes, with critics lauding his use of Japanese documents and his interpretation of the significance of what happened. The first trial by fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, the violent three-day attack on Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress of barely three hundred acres, left six thousand men dead. This book offers an authoritative account of the tactics, innovations, leadership, and weapons employed by both antagonists. Alexander convincingly argues that without the vital lessons of Tarawa the larger amphibious victories to come at Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa might not have been possible.
Author | : Martin Russ |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : United States. Marine Corps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Tarawa, Battle of, 1943 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph H. Alexander |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2022-08-15 |
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Download Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : William W. Rogal |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786455853 |
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Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.
Author | : Derrick Wright |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782002650 |
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The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese.
Author | : George Carroll Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Download The Amphibians Came to Conquer: To the central Pacific and Tarawa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle