Ian W Toll: Pacific Crucible | Buch

Cover: 9780393068139 | Pacific Crucible | War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 | Ian W Toll

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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. Pacific Crucible 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 and seized the strategic initiative.

Ian W. Toll's dramatic narrative encompasses both the high command and the "sailor's-eye" view from the lower deck. Relying predominantly on eyewitness accounts and primary sources, Pacific Crucible also spotlights recent scholarship that has revised our understanding of the conflict, including the Japanese decision to provoke a war that few in the country's highest circles thought they could win. The result is a page-turning history that does justice to the breadth and depth of a tremendous subject.

Über den Autor

Ian W. Toll is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Conquering Tide, Pacific Crucible, and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in New York.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780393068139
ISBN-10:	0393068137
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Toll, Ian W
Hersteller:	W. W. Norton & Company
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	246 x 175 x 48 mm
Von/Mit:	Ian W Toll
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.11.2011
Gewicht:	1,059 kg