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Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles
Robert Sherrod
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Description for Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles
Paperback. Originally published in New York in 1944 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce with the subtitle: The story of a battle. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod’s battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in ... Read more
In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod’s battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781620871010
SKU
V9781620871010
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