Isbn: 9780393352276 - target tokyo: jimmy doolittle and the raid that avenged pearl harbor (13 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 672 pages. The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated-and controversial-mi litary campaigns: the Doolittle Raid. In December 1941, as American forces tall ied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his sen ior military counselors to plan an ambitious counterstrike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo. Four months later, on April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. A rmy bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel the enemy's factories , refineries, and dockyards and then escape to Free China. For Roosevelt, the ra id was a propaganda victory, a potent salve to heal a wounded nation. In Japan, outraged over the deaths of innocent civilians-including children-military leade rs launched an ill-fated attempt to seize Midway that would turn the tide of the war. But it was the Chinese who suffered the worst, victims of a retaliatory ca mpaign by the Japanese Army that claimed an estimated 250,000 lives and saw fami lies drowned in wells, entire towns burned, and communities devastated by bacter iological warfare. At the center of this incredible story is Doolittle, the so n of an Alaskan gold prospector, a former boxer, and brilliant engineer who earn ed his doctorate from MIT. Other fascinating characters populate this gripping n arrative, including Chiang Kai-shek, Lieutenant General Joseph Vinegar Joe Stilw ell, and the feisty Vice Admiral William Bull Halsey Jr. Here, too, are indelibl e portraits of the young pilots, navigators, and bombardiers, many of them littl e more than teenagers, who raised their hands to volunteer for a mission from wh ich few expected to return. Most of the bombers ran out of fuel and crashed. Cap.…

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Zustand: New. Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History. "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken.Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era." -Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast Num Pages: 672 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 530. . 2016. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 648 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJames M. Scott is the author of Black Snow, Rampage, and Target Tokyo, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.Klappentext.