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Command decisions
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 578
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An analysis of 23 decisions reached by chiefs of state and their military subordinates during World War II. Concerned with important political, strategic, tactical, and logistical questions, they include the invasions of North Africa and Normandy, the use of the atomic bomb, the capture of Rome, the campaigns in the western Pacific, and the internment of Japanese-Americans. CMH 70-7-1. Army Historical Series. Edited with introductory essay by Kent Roberts Greenfield.
The Fall of the Philippines
Tears in the Darkness
Author: Michael Norman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-06-09
Total Pages: 958
ISBN-13: 0374272603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.
Reports of General MacArthur
The Battle of Bataan
Author: Donald J. Young
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0786453729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army mostly made up of untrained Filipinos, the Battle of Bataan has become one of the "forgotten" battles of World War II. This book provides a complete history of the conflict by looking at the events which led up to the battle, with an overview of the American, Philippine and Japanese forces that fought on Bataan. Abandoned by their commander, Douglas MacArthur, and written off by their president, without an air force or navy to support them, for 90 days the Americans and Filipinos held out against not only the Japanese but the ravages of starvation and disease. In the end came the largest surrender in American military history. The book contains dozens of period and modern photographs and several maps.
Command Decisions
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 598
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My Hitch in Hell
Author: Lester I. Tenney
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018-10-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1640121129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor’s epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author. Purchase the audio edition.
Leyte
Author: M. Hamlin Cannon
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the Leyte Campaign the War in the Pacific entered a decisive stage. The period of limited offensives, bypassing, and island hopping was virtually over. American troops in greater numbers than ever before assembled in the Pacific Theater, supported by naval and air forces of corresponding size, fought and overcame Japanese forces of greater magnitude than any previously met. Though the spotlight is on the front-line fighting, the reader will find in this volume a faithful description of all arms and services performing their missions. The account is not exclusively an infantry story. It covers as well the support of ground fighting on Leyte by large-scale naval operations and by land-based air power under the most adverse conditions. In addition, careful attention to logistical matters, such as the movement of supplies and the evacuation of the wounded, gives the reader a picture of the less spectacular activities of an army in battle.
Triumph in the Philippines
Author: Robert Ross Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 784
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The reconquest of the Philippine archipelago (exclusive of Leyte), with detailed accounts of Sixth Army and Eighth Army operations on Luzon, as well as of the Eighth Army's reoccupation of the southern Philippines.
