Pacific Crucible
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Word Count
149,250 words, Guess
Page Count
597 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25084037M
- ISBN-139780393068139
- OCLC Control Number706023503
- OCLC Control Numberpacificcruciblew00toll
- Library of Congress Control Number2011028907
Classifications
- LCCD767 .T65 2012
Description
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
Description
Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
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