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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-101841761028
ISBN-139781841761022
eBay Product ID (ePID)1804584
Product Key Features
Book TitleTarawa 1943 : the Turning of the Tide
Number of Pages96 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Military / Naval, Modern / 20th Century
Publication Year2000
IllustratorYes, Gerrard, Howard
GenreHistory
AuthorDerrick Wright
Book SeriesCampaign Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length9.9 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number77
Dewey Decimal940.54/26681
Table Of ContentOrigins of the campaign Chronology Opposing commanders Opposing armies Orders of battle Opposing plans The campaign Aftermath The battlefield today Appendices Further reading Index
SynopsisOsprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). 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., An detailed examination of this bloody Pacific battle, featuring maps, artwork and archive photography.
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