Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific (Forth) - Hardcover

Smith, Rex Alan; Meehl, Gerald A

 
9780789213334: Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific (Forth)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0789213338 ISBN 13: 9780789213334
Verlag: Abbeville Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Pacific Legacy offers an unprecedented record of the relics of World War II that have survived on the islands of the Pacific: American landing craft rusting on the reefs where they were stopped by enemy fire; shell-pocked Japanese fortifications; fallen aircraft overgrown by jungle; packed-coral landing strips still as good as new. These evocative color images are paired with archival photographs that show the same tropical battlegrounds as they appeared in wartime.

The text covers the entire war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to Japan's surrender in Tokyo Bay. The principal battles are recounted hour-by-hour, drawing heavily on firsthand accounts. This vivid narrative helps the reader visualize what it was really like to be at war in the Pacific, doggedly island-hopping to victory.

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Rex Alan Smith and Gerald A. Meehl are also the editors of Pacific War Stories: In the Words of Those Who Survived (Abbeville), an oral history that serves as a companion to Pacific Legacy. Smith (1921–2010), who served three years in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, was the author of several well-received books of history, including The Carving of Mount Rushmore (Abbeville), the standard work on its subject.

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Verlag
Abbeville Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0789213338
ISBN 13 
9780789213334
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
300
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