Joseph Wheelan

Bitter Peleliu

The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield

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Produktbeschreibung

The hard-hitting narrative of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu â a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781472849502
• ISBN-10: 1472849507
• Artikelnr.: 63247656

Autorenporträt

Joseph Wheelan is the author of ten books about 19th- and 20th-century American history including Midnight in the Pacific (2017) and Bloody Okinawa (2020). Previously, he was an editor and reporter for The Associated Press for 24 years. He lives in Cary, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Chapter 1: The "Old Breed"
Chapter 2: Second Thoughts, A Brash Prediction
Chapter 3: The Japanese
Chapter 4: The Bloody Beaches
Chapter 5: The Point, The Airfield
Chapter 6: Into the Ridges
Chapter 7: Combat on Angaur and Peleliu
Chapter 8: The Destruction of the First Marines
Chapter 9: Isolating the Pocket
Chapter 10: The Fifth Marines Take Over
Chapter 11: The Army's Turn
Chapter 12: The End
Chapter 13: Aftermath
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

The months-long struggle for Peleliu was one of the hardest fought campaigns of the Pacific War. It should be better known and now, thanks to Joseph Wheelan's exhaustively researched and beautifully and sensitively crafted study, it will take its rightful place alongside the iconic battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.