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  • US Soldier vs Japanese Infantryman

    Philippines 1944–45

    par Gregg Adams ...
    Collection Livre 85 - Combat
    Fully illustrated, this study examines the US Army and Japanese troops who fought for control of the Philippine Islands in the climactic months of World War II.In October 1944 the Sixth US Army landed on Leyte in the Japanese-held Central Philippine Islands, initiating a series of battles that became the largest contest between the US and Japanese armies. Determined to liberate the Philippines, ... En savoir plus

    15,09 €

  • US Marine vs Japanese Soldier

    Saipan, Guam, and Peleliu, 1944

    par Gregg Adams ...
    Collection Livre 77 - Combat
    Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.In June 1944, the United States military launched an offensive against the Japanese forces holding the Mariana Islands and Palau. The US Marine Corps played a vital role in this campaign alongside Army and Navy forces, while their Japanese opponents mounted a ... En savoir plus

    15,09 €

  • Japanese Infantryman vs US Marine Rifleman

    Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok, 1943–44

    par Gregg Adams ...
    Collection Livre 75 - Combat
    Featuring evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during 1943–44.On November 20, 1943, amphibious vehicles carrying Marines of the 2d Marine Division reached the shores of Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, defended by a determined Japanese garrison that would ... En savoir plus

    15,09 €

  • Japanese Soldier vs US Soldier

    New Guinea 1942–44

    par Gregg Adams ...
    Collection Livre 60 - Combat
    This absorbing study pits US Army National Guardsmen against Japanese soldiers in the uniquely hostile setting of the New Guinea campaign in World War II.When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, New Guinea – the world's second-largest island – was administered partly by Australia and partly by the Dutch East Indies. The New Guinea campaign (January 1942–August 1945) saw ... En savoir plus

    13,93 €

  • US Soldier vs British Soldier

    War of 1812

    par Gregg Adams ...
    Collection Livre 54 - Combat
    Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields.This study examines the evolving role and combat performance of the two sides' regulars during the conflict, with particular reference to three revealing battles in successive years: ... En savoir plus

    15,09 €

  • King's African Rifles Soldier vs Schutztruppe Soldier

    East Africa 1917–18

    par Gregg Adams ...
    Collection Livre 20 - Combat
    Specially commissioned artwork and thrilling combat accounts transport the reader to the far-flung and inhospitable East African theatre of World War I, where the Schutztruppe faced off against the King's African Rifles.In an attempt to divert Allied forces from the Western Front, a small German colonial force under the command of Oberst Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck raided British and Portuguese ... En savoir plus

    15,09 €

  • US Marine vs German Soldier

    Belleau Wood 1918

    par Gregg Adams ...
    Collection Livre 32 - Combat
    After the US declaration of war on Germany, hundreds of thousands of American troops flooded into France and were thrust into the front line.Among them was the US Marine Corps' 4th Marine Brigade whose first major action was the battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918, fighting elements of Germany's 10th, 28th, and 237th Infantry divisions. Volunteers to a man, the newly arrived Marines faced ... En savoir plus

    15,09 €

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  • The Battle for Tinian

    Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan

    par Nathan N. Prefer ...
    This vivid history chronicles the decisive US naval campaign that secured the Japanese island of Tinian—the site that would launch the end of WWII.In July 1944, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army, and Air Corps descended on the Pacific island of Saipan, just three miles away from the Japanese stronghold on the island of Tinian. There had been 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan before the ... En savoir plus

    12,29 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • War in the Pacific

    From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

    par Harry Gailey ...
    Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief ... En savoir plus

    10,48 €

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Fight for the Pacific, 1945

    par Andrew Rawson ...
    On 19 February 1945, Operation Detachment began with US marine forces storming Iwo Jima, aiming to capture the island and its airfields. This was the first campaign on Japanese soil and would result in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. A brutal example of war at all costs, the defending garrison fought to almost the last man; it was a fight they couldn't hope to win against the ... En savoir plus

    9,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • MacArthur's Victory

    The War in New Guinea, 1943-1944

    par Harry Gailey ...
    A GREAT WARRIOR AT THE PEAK OF HIS POWERSIn March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur faced an enemy who, in the space of a few months, captured Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and, from their base at Raubaul in New Britain, threaten Australia. Upon his retreat to Australia, MacArthur hoped to find enough men and matérielfor a quick offensive against the Japanese. Instead, he ... En savoir plus

    8,36 €

  • Tarawa 1943

    The turning of the tide

    par Derrick Wright ...
    Collection Livre 77 - Campaign
    An detailed examination of this bloody Pacific battle, featuring maps, artwork and archive photography.The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd ... En savoir plus

    17,58 €