Fire and fortitude : the US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.5426/MCMANUS,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York, New York] : Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
©2019
©2019
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 624 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780451475046, 0451475046, 9780451475053 40029323242, 0451475054
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Place of publication from publisher's Web site
"John C. McManus, one of our most highly-acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor--a rude awakening for a ragtag militia woefully unprepared for war--to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly-desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and America evolved from an inward-looking nation into a global superpower."--Provided by publisher