Островной ад: Тихоокеанская военная одиссея армии США, 1944 г. ДЖОН К. МАКМАНУС

Island Infernos: The US Armys Pacific War Odyssey, 1944

In Fire and Fortitude--winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History--John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army`s fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army`s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America ever closer to victory or defeat. After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe, from Alaska`s Aleutians to Burma and New Guinea. The challenges ahead were enormous: supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean; surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria, and other tropical diseases; fighting an enemy prone to ever-more desperate and dangerous assaults. Yet the Army had proven they could fight. Now, they had to prove they could win a war. Brilliantly researched and written, Island Infernos moves seamlessly from the highest generals to the lowest foot soldiers and in between, capturing the true essence of this horrible conflict. A sprawling yet page-turning narrative, the story spans the battles for Saipan and Guam, the appalling carnage of Peleliu, General MacArthur`s dramatic return to the Philippines, and the grinding jungle combat to capture the island of Leyte. This masterful history is the second volume of John C. McManus`s trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War, proving McManus to be one of our finest historians of World War II.

• Autor: John C. Mcmanus
• Wydawnictwo: Penguin
• Rok wydania: 2021
• Okładka: twarda
• Liczba stron: 576
• Wymiary: 16.6 x 24.2 x 5.6 cm
• Język: angielski
• ISBN: 9780451475060