South Pacific cauldron : World War II's great forgotten battlegrounds / Alan Rems.

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While the Pacific War has been widely studied by military historians and venerated in popular culture through movies and other media, the fighting in the South Pacific theater has, with few exceptions, been remarkably neglected. Worthy of remembrance no less than Wake Island, Leyte Gulf, and Taraw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rems, Alan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, [2014]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area.
Military campaigns.
Physical Description:xxiii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The hottest potato
  • I want you to take Buna, or not come back alive
  • There was indeed only one Yamamoto
  • The most unintelligently waged land campaign
  • A custody receipt for Munda ... keep 'em dying
  • Lae and Salamaua must be defended to the death
  • Prevent your troops engaging my troops
  • The weakness of trying to fight battles from a distance
  • It's Torokina. Now get on your horses!
  • Halsey knows the straight story
  • Make sure they think the invasion has commenced
  • Guadalcanal minus most of the errors
  • The final outcome ... was never in doubt
  • The most desperate emergency
  • The closest thing to a living hell
  • A shop in the Japs' front yard
  • More nerve-racking than ... Tobruk or El Alamein
  • Nature proved to be a worse enemy than the Japanese
  • Keep Rabaul burning!
  • The worst-kept secret of the war in the South Pacific
  • But for the stern resistance ... of the XIV corps
  • They wanted to fight
  • The South Pacific campaign was finished
  • Kicking around a corpse
  • The Japanese could die where they were or die advancing
  • Doubtful that he checked with the ordinary foot soldier
  • No enemy can withstand you
  • Japan man e cry enough
  • Once it was over it was over
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.