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Author:

McManus, John C., 1965- author.

Title:

Fire and fortitude : the US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 / John C. McManus.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Caliberan imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvi, 624 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States.--Army--History--World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-549) and index.

Contents:

Onslaught -- Stunned -- Hostages to fortune -- Doomed -- Allies of a kind -- Partners -- Hell -- Turnabout -- Possibilities -- "My crime deserves more than death" -- Chills -- The counsel of our fears -- Fighting two battles -- Surviving -- Toils -- Makin.

Summary:

"John C. McManus, one of our most highly-acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor--a rude awakening for a ragtag militia woefully unprepared for war--to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly-desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and America evolved from an inward-looking nation into a global superpower."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0451475046
9780451475046

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1051778604

LCCN:

2018037343

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