Implacable foes : war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio.

"At the end of World War Two, Americans clamored for their troops to come home. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. The task of defeating the Japanese seemed nearly unsurmountable,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Heinrichs, Waldo H. (Author)
Gallicchio, Marc, 1954- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American.
Military campaigns.
Military operations, Naval > American.
Pacific Area.
1939-1945
Physical Description:xiii, 711 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Gaining momentum
  • Moving ahead on New Guinea, April-July, 1944
  • The Marianas campaign, June-August, 1944
  • Accelerating the advance, August-October, 1944
  • Leyte to Manila, October, 1944-March, 1945
  • Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945
  • Recovering Luzon, February-June, 1945
  • Beyond human endurance: taking all of the Philippines, February-June, 1945
  • Okinawa, April-June, 1945
  • Two down and one to go: the home front, March-June, 1945
  • Between war and peace, June-July, 1945
  • Potsdam, July-August, 1945
  • Surrender at last, August, 1945.