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Chargement... The Guadalcanal Campaign (1949)par John L. Zimmerman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is pretty much the official U.S. Marine Corps overview of the battle for the island of Guadalcanal, which was essentially the turning point of the war in the Pacific in World War II. While there are scattered throughout a very few personal anecdotes, this is primarily a well-organized recapitulation of troop movements and engagements between American and Japanese forces during the campaign. It gives a very clear picture of the actions of the campaign (between August, 1942 and February, 1943). The many fold-out maps included are far from clear, however, unless one happened to be part of the American military forces on Guadalcanal at the time, as they are marked with shorthand notations that are not explained to the non--participant. All in all, this is a useful and plain-spoken treatise, but not a terribly human one. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Contains 88 photos illustrations and maps. "We struck at Guadalcanal to halt the advance of the Japanese. We did not know how strong he was, nor did we know his plans. We knew only that he was moving down the island chain and that he had to be stopped. We were as well trained and as well armed as time and our peacetime experience allowed us to be. We needed combat to tell us how effective our training, our doctrines, and our weapons had been. We tested them against the enemy, and we found that they worked. From that moment in 1942, the tide turned, and the Japanese never again advanced.-A.A. Vandergrift, General U.S. Marine Corps" Major John L. Zimmerman, USMCR Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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