Pacific War Diary

Author : James J. Fahey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618400805
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945 written by James J. Fahey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fahey was a 24-year-old garbage-truck driver when he enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 3, 1942, and became a seaman first class on the USS Montpelier. During almost three years of battle in the Pacific Ocean, he defied Navy rules against keeping a diary by writing copious notes on loose sheets of paper that appeared to anyone watching to be ordinary let

Author : James J. Fahey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific War Diary written by James J. Fahey and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James J. Fahey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295973043
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific War Diary, Illustrated written by James J. Fahey and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, illustrated edition of Pacific War Diary preserves, in abbreviated form, Fahey's vivid narrative. A selection of photographs, drawn from both Navy and Army sources, follows the course of events described by Fahey.

Author : Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824829773
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies written by Samuel Hideo Yamashita and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of Singapore and the brilliant victories achieved since the start of the war mean we are protected, but I don’t know just how grateful I should be. —Takahashi Aiko, housewife, February 1942 This is my final departure from the home islands. I have paid my respects to those who have helped me. I have no regrets. —Itabashi Yasuo, navy kamikaze pilot, February 1944 We had rice gruel for lunch again. There was no tofu in it, but there were potatoes.... We went through with the closing ceremony and received our report cards. Everyone was there. From now on, I’ll persevere and not fail. —Manabe Ichiro, primary school student, July 1944 This collection of diaries gives readers a powerful, firsthand look at the effects of the Pacific War on eight ordinary Japanese. Immediate, vivid, and at times surprisingly frank, the diaries chronicle the last years of the war and its aftermath as experienced by a navy kamikaze pilot, an army straggler on Okinawa, an elderly Kyoto businessman, a Tokyo housewife, a young working woman in Tokyo, a teenage girl mobilized for war work, and two schoolchildren evacuated to the countryside. Samuel Yamashita’s introduction provides a helpful overview of the historiography on wartime Japan and offers valuable insights into the important, everyday issues that concerned Japanese during a different and disastrously difficult time.

Author : Richard Tregaskis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guadalcanal Diary written by Richard Tregaskis and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Corwin Mendenhall
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512194
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submarine Diary written by Corwin Mendenhall and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II.

Author : John Ciardi
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557280183
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saipan written by John Ciardi and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.

Author : Matome Ugaki
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591143246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fading Victory written by Matome Ugaki and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print, these wartime diaries of a key admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, provide a revealing inside look into the Japanese view of the Pacific War. Matome Ugaki was chief of staff of the Combined Fleet under Admiral Isoroki Yamamoto until both were shot down over Bougainville in April 1943, resulting in Yamamoto's death. He later served as commander of battleship and air fleets, finally directing the kamikaze attacks off Okinawa. Invaluable for its details of the Japanese Navy at war, the diaries offer a running appraisal of the fighting and are augmented by editorial commentary that proves especially useful to American readers eager to see the war from the other side. When first published in 1991, this dairy was hailed as a major contribution to World War II literature as the only firsthand account of strategic planning for the entire war by a Japanese commander. -- Publisher's Description.

Author : Forrest C. Pogue
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813191607
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pogue's War written by Forrest C. Pogue and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume biography of General George C. Marshall. But, as Pogue's War makes clear, he was also a pioneer in the development of oral history in the twentieth century, as well as an impressive interviewer with an ability to relate to people at all levels, from the private in the trenches to the general carrying four stars. Pogue's War is drawn from Forrest Pogue's handwritten pocket notebooks, carried with him throughout the war, long regarded as unreadable because of his often atrocious handwriting. Pogue himself began expanding the diaries a few short years after the war, with the intent of eventual publication. At last this work is being published. Supplemented with carefully deciphered and transcribed selections from his diaries, the heart of the book is straight from the field. Much of the material has never before seen print. From D-Day to VE-Day, Pogue experienced and documented combat on the front lines, describing action on Omaha Beach, in the Huertgen Forest, and on other infamous fields of conflict. He not only graphically -- yet also often poetically­­ -- recounts the extreme circumstances of battle, but he also notes his fellow soldiers' innermost thoughts, feelings, opinions, and attitudes about the cruelty of war. As a trained historian, Pogue describes how he went about his work and how the Army's history program functioned in the European Theater of Operations. His entries from his time at the history headquarters in Paris show the city in the early days after the liberation in a unique light. Pogue's War has an immediacy that much official history lacks, and is a remarkable addition to any World War II bookshelf. Franklin D. Anderson, Forrest Pogue's nephew by marriage, is a longtime educator. He lives in Princeton, Kentucky.

Author : John K. Stutterheim
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823250148
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Prisoner 17326 written by John K. Stutterheim and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this account brings to life the shocking day-to-day conditions in a Japanese labor camp and provides an intimate look at the collapse of Dutch colonial rule. As a boy growing up on the island of Java, John Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. His father, a government accountant, would grumble at the pro-German newspaper and from time to time entertain the family with his singing. It was a fairly typical life for a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies, and a peaceful and happy childhood for young John. But at the age of 14 it would all be irrevocably shattered by the Japanese invasion. With the surrender of Java in 1942, John’s father was taken prisoner. For over three years the family would not know if he was alive or dead. Soon thereafter, John, his younger brother, and his mother were imprisoned. A year later he and his brother were moved to a forced labor camp for boys, where they toiled under the fierce sun while disease and starvation slowly took their toll, all the while suspecting they would soon be killed. Throughout all of these travails, John kept a secret diary hidden in his handmade mattress, and his memories now offer a unique perspective on an often overlooked episode of World War II. What emerges is a compelling story of a young man caught up in the machinations of a global war—struggling to survive in the face of horrible brutality, struggling to care for his disease-wracked brother, and struggling to put his family back together. It is a story that must not be forgotten.