From Pearl Harbor To V J Day

Author : Clayton D. James
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 146172094X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day written by Clayton D. James and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before this book, general readers who wanted a compact but comprehensive history of American military action in World War II had nowhere to turn. Now, in this concise, lucid, and balanced account, D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provide the first one volume history of the U.S. armed forces in the war. Examining the strategy, logistics, high command, operations, and home-front aspects of the military campaign, they narrate the story .in slightly more than 200 pages, with a clarity and perspective that virtually any reader will appreciate. In addition to describing the major operations and battles, and analyzing strategy and tactics, From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day contains crisp portraits of major military leaders and a background of political, diplomatic, economic, and social developments in the warring nations. Also receiving attention are the role of women and minorities in the military; the relation of armed forces personnel to the American home front; the impact of technology; and the breakthroughs of communications intelligence. In a final chapter the authors consider the consequences of the war for American society and suggest that romanticized views of the conflict should finally be laid to rest.

Author : Robert Olney Easton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806123363
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and War written by Robert Olney Easton and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this riveting narrative, WWII is uniquely experienced through letters exchanged by a young couple, she on the home front, he on the war front. This intimate and suspenseful dialogue between two lovers, mates, and parents offers readers a poignant look at two people during wartime."--Back cover.

Author : Charles A. Numark
Publisher : New Cavendish Books Dist
ISBN 13 : 9781872727141
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Wartime Scrapbook written by Charles A. Numark and published by New Cavendish Books Dist. This book was released on 2002 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an insight into life on the American homefront that will be fascinating to people of all ages.

Author : Walter L. Hixson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415940320
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Experience in World War II: Pearl Harbor in history and memory written by Walter L. Hixson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II changed the face of the United States, catapulting the country out of economic depression, political isolation, and social conservatism. Ultimately, the war was a major formative factor in the creation of modern America. This unique, twelve-volume set provides comprehensive coverage of this transformation in its domestic policies, diplomatic relations, and military strategies, as well as the changing cultural and social arenas. The collection presents the history of the creation of a super power prior to, during, and after the war, analyzing all major phases of the U.S. involvement, making it a one-stop resource that will be essential for all libraries supporting a history curriculum. This volume is available on its own or as part of the twelve-volume set, "The American Experience in World War II." For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for" The American Experience in World War II" [ISBN: 0-415-94028-1].

Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756555949
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by Stephanie Fitzgerald and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.

Author : James L. Stokesbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War II written by James L. Stokesbury and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Bliven (Jr.)
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa written by Bruce Bliven (Jr.) and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1960 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account begins with Pearl Harbor and ends with V-J day.

Author : Gordon W. Prange
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480489506
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book December 7, 1941 written by Gordon W. Prange and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A minute-by-minute account of the morning that brought America into World War II, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of At Dawn We Slept. When dawn broke over Hawaii on December 7, 1941, no one suspected that America was only minutes from war. By nightfall, the naval base at Pearl Harbor was a smoldering ruin, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. December 7, 1941 gives a detailed and immersive real-time account of that fateful morning. In or out of uniform, every witness responded differently when the first Japanese bombs began to fall. A chaplain fled his post and spent a week in hiding, while mess hall workers seized a machine gun and began returning fire. Some officers were taken unawares, while others responded valiantly, rallying their men to fight back and in some cases sacrificing their lives. Built around eyewitness accounts, this book provides an unprecedented glimpse of how it felt to be at Pearl Harbor on the day that would live in infamy.

Author : Jacob Neufeld
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437912869
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearl to V-J Day written by Jacob Neufeld and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume records the proceedings of a symposium held in July 1995 at the Naval Officers' Club, Bethesda, Maryland. Contents: Grand strategy in the Pacific war / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Joint operations / Walter S. Poole -- The island campaign / Edwin H. Simmons -- Intelligence methodologies in the Pacific war / John Prados -- The sea war against Japan / William S. Dudley -- Military technology and the Pacific war / Richard P. Hallion -- Strategic intelligence and war termination / Edward J. Drea -- Revolutionizing submarine warfare / Eugene B. Fluckey -- The strategic air war against Japan / William M. Leary -- The decision to drop the atomic bomb / Theodore H. McNelly. Photos.

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400868289
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road to Pearl Harbor written by Herbert Feis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan. It is full and impartial. Though written as an independent and private study, records and information of an exceptional range and kind were used in its making. These give it authority. They include all the pertinent State Department papers; the American official military records in preparation; selections from the Roosevelt papers at Hyde Park; the full private diaries of Stimons, Morgenthau, and Grew; the file of the intercepted "Magic" cables; and equivalent collections of official and private Japanese records. The author was at the time in the State Department (as Adviser on International Economic Affairs) and thus in close touch with the men and matters of which he writes. In telling how this war came about, this book tells much of how other wars happen. For it is a close study of the ways in which officials, diplomats, and soldiers think and act; of the environment of decision, of the ambitions of nations, of the clash of their ideas, of the way sin which fear and mistrust affect events, and of the struggle for time and advantage. The narrative follows events in a double mirror of which one side is Washington and the other Tokyo, and synchronizes the images. Thus it traces the ways in which the acts and decisions of this country influenced Japan and vice versa. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.