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Pacific Crucible War at Sea in the Pacific 1941 1942 Vol 1

Release on 2011-11-14 | by Ian W. Toll

Author: Ian W. Toll
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393083170
Category: History
Page: 656
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Pacific Crucible War at Sea in the Pacific 1941 1942 Vol 1

Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle 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.

Language: en
Pages: 656

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1)

Authors: Ian W. Toll

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-14 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Language: en
Pages: 672

The Conquering Tide

Authors: Ian W. Toll

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-21 - Publisher: W. W. Norton

The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island.

Language: en
Pages: 6434

Film & Video Finder

Authors: Ian W. Toll

Categories: Performing Arts

Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: National Information Center for

Books about Film & Video Finder

Language: en
Pages:

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

Authors: Ian W. Toll

Categories: Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

This encyclopedia includes a two-volume index, a 12-volume Micropaedia (Ready reference), a 17-volume Micropaedia (Knowledge in depth), and the Propaedia.

Language: en
Pages:

The New Encyclopædia Britannica

Authors: Ian W. Toll

Categories: Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

V.1-12 Micropaedia: Ready reference -- V.13-29 Macropaedia: Knowledge in depth -- V.[30] Propaedia: Outline of knowledge -- V.[31] Index, A-K -- V.[32] Index, L-Z.