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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Alaska Press
ISBN-10
0912006838
ISBN-13
9780912006833
eBay Product ID (ePID)
484573
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Thousand-Mile War : World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians
Number of Pages
456 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Military / World War II
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Book Series
Classic Reprint Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-039358
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
940.542/8
Edition Description
Reprint
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Foreword Preface to the 1995 Edition Author''s Note PART ONE Buckner''s War CHAPTER ONE Japan Steams North CHAPTER TWO "You Will Be Governed by the Principle of Calculated Risk" CHAPTER THREE The Battle of Dutch Harbor: The First Day CHAPTER FOUR The Battle of Dutch Harbor: The Second Day CHAPTER FIVE Buckner''s Beehive CHAPTER SIX "The Airfield Is for Use Either by Ourselves or by the Enemy, Whichever Gets There First" PART TWO Eareckson''s War CHAPTER SEVEN The Forward Blitz CHAPTER EIGHT Mission to Seek and Destroy Enemy in Alaska CHAPTER NINE "When You Could See a Hundred Feet, That Was a Clear Day" CHAPTER TEN The Navy''s Spring Plowing CHAPTER ELEVEN Foward to Adak CHAPTER TWELVE "I had a Sheep-Lined Fur Parka- And Then I had One to Wear Outdoors" PART THREE Kinkaid''s War CHAPTER THIRTEEN Kinkaid''s Blockade CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Battle of the Komandorskis CHAPTER FIFTEEN "The Hunger Was Maddening..." CHAPTER SIXTEEN Operation Landcrab CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Battle of Attu CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Raids on Paramushiro CHAPTER NINETEEN Battle of the Pips CHAPTER TWENTY The Invasion of Kiska Epilogue Afterword Appendix One Further Discussion of the Paramushiro Raids Appendix Two Further Discussion of the Battle of the Pips Bibliographical Remarks Bibliography Bibliographic Addendum 1995 Index
Synopsis
The Thousand-Mile War , a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this "forgotten war" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations., The Thousand-Mile War is a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, that has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Author Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new story when he came upon this "forgotten war" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign. The book remains a favorite among Alaskans and WWII history buffs. The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, but the most fearful enemy was the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed their men into situations with often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. More than half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In this updated edition, Garfield supplements his original account drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and significant additional illustrations.
LC Classification Number
D769
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