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TARAWA 1943
THE TURNING OF THE TIDE |
| By: |
Derrick Wright, Howard Gerrard (Illus), David Chandler (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1841761028 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781841761022 |
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| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
25 October, 2000 |
| Series: |
Osprey Military Campaign S. No. 77 |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
This title examines the 76-hour battle to take Tarawa by the Americans in 1943. It recounts how a garrison of 3700 Japanese soldiers withstood the onslaught of some 3000 US marines in a pioneering amphibious invasion. |
| Synopsis: |
Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that -the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years-. In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese. |
| Illustrations: |
75 b&w and 13 colour illustrations, chronology, bibliography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Osprey Publishing |
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Non-returnable |