September is back-to-school time, but even if you’re long graduated, it’s a good month for learning new things and hearing new stories. This month’s top picks in history paint fascinating portraits of presidents, heroes, cities, and wars, and transport readers to some of the last century’s most critical turning points. Take yourself back to school […]
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780393343410 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 11/26/2012 |
Series: | The Pacific War Trilogy , #1 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 656 |
Sales rank: | 97,579 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d) |