The U.S.A. in World War II: The Pacific Theater
By Douglas Welsh.
Description
America's involement in World War II began in the Pacofic at Pearl Harbor and finished with the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrender . The surprize attack on Peal Harbor gave Japan the advantage in the early months of the war and the catalogue of American defeacts was only lightened by MacArrthur's defense of Bataan and his defiant promise , " I shall return!'' With the hard -fought carrier battles of the Coral Sea and midway and the marines' struggle to capture Guadalcanal the tide began to return . Gradually American material an...
ISBN(s)
0831796693, 9780831796693
