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Battlefield Pacific

Author : Miranda Watson

Publisher : Red Storm

Page : 574 pages

File Size : 30,10 MB

Release : 2018-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781983328336

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From the Top 100 Amazon Best Selling Author... If the Pacific falls to the Chinese, they will be one step closer to dominating all of Asia. A line has been drawn in the sand--if there is any hope of stemming Operation Red Storm, the Philippines must not fall. Will the Allies be able to hold their ground in this intense sea battle? Reeling from the loss of two aircraft carriers in the opening days of the war, the US is forced to move its Atlantic carriers to the Pacific. Will additional ships from the Atlantic Fleet and the new railguns ofthe Zumwalt-class destroyers be enough to overcome the drone and cruise missile swarms of the Chinese navy? Or will the sheer numbers of incoming munitions simply overtake the Allied forces? Battlefield Pacific is the highly anticipated fourth book in the Red Storm geopolitical military thriller series. If you like pulse-pounding combat scenes, rich characters, and unpredictable twist and turns, you'll love James Rosone and Miranda Watson's fourth addition to the series. Uncover some of the deeper threads woven in the Russian and Chinese grand plan. With the addition of India and Indonesia to their alliance, will the democracies of the West be able to stand against the dictatorial regimes of the East? Grab your copy of Battlefield Pacific to join the action and find out. Praise for Battlefield Pacific ★★★★★ 'Brutal. Pulls no punches. Reading this makes me feel like I'm either on the battlefield or a war planning room!' ★★★★★ 'I'm going to keep it short as what a shocker, you won't believe as the war changes forever. No spoilers and be ready for a fight.' ★★★★★ 'Like an actual conflict, this series has built up in fashion that appeal to readers of this genre.' ★★★★★ 'Great writing. Realistic to being scary.' ★★★★★ 'The action keep me not wanting to quit reading and the ending OMG!' The Red Storm Series is best enjoyed when read in the correct order as each book builds on the previous work. Reading order: Book 1: Battlefield Ukraine Book 2: Battlefield Korea Book 3: Battlefield Taiwan Book 4: Battlefield Pacific Book 5: Battlefield Russia Book 6: Battlefield China *When you buy a book written by Rosone and Watson, they have chosen to donate a portion of the proceeds to help support the following organizations: Tunnel to Towers Foundation, Operation Underground Railroad, and Charity: Water.



Crucible of Hell

Author : Saul David

Publisher : Hachette Books

Page : 448 pages

File Size : 18,7 MB

Release : 2020-05-05

Category : History

ISBN : 031653465X

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From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them. With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach southward across the Pacific and was renowned for the fanaticism and brutality of its fighters, who refused to surrender, even when faced with insurmountable odds. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa. The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the largest of the Pacific War and the greatest air-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops from Seattle, Leyte in the Philippines, and ports around the world. The campaign lasted for 83 blood-soaked days, as the fighting plumbed depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he had witnessed, referred to the fighting as the "crucible of Hell." Okinawan civilians died in the tens of thousands: some were mistaken for soldiers by American troops; but as the US Marines spearheading the invasion drove further onto the island and Japanese defeat seemed inevitable, many more civilians took their own lives, some even murdering their own families. In just under three months, the world had changed irrevocably: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died; the war in Europe ended; America's appetite for an invasion of Japan had waned, spurring President Truman to use other means -- ultimately atomic bombs -- to end the war; and more than 250,000 servicemen and civilians on or near the island of Okinawa had lost their lives. Drawing on archival research in the US, Japan, and the UK, and the original accounts of those who survived, Crucible of Hell tells the vivid, heart-rending story of the battle that changed not just the course of WWII, but the course of war, forever.



Multivocal Archaeologies of the Pacific War, 1941–45

Author : Ben Raffield

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 31,19 MB

Release : 2023-07-21

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1000912787

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This volume draws together the ground-breaking work of researchers and archaeological practitioners, working in multiple countries, to explore and understand the material and cultural impacts of the Pacific War. The combat taking place in the Pacific region during the years 1941–45 was characterized by a brutality and violence unmatched in any other theatre of the Second World War. Described by indigenous Micronesians as a ‘typhoon,’ the war was an unstoppable force that rolled across the islanders’ homes, leaving only a trail of destruction in its wake, with physical, psychological, and cultural impacts that continue to resonate today. This difficult period is examined in a variety of ways through chapters that include targeted studies of archaeological sites, wider surveys of battlefield landscapes, and the ways in which we commemorate the experiences and legacies of both combatants and civilian populations. The translation of important research by Okinawan, Japanese, and Russian archaeologists brings into focus regions that have previously been neglected in Anglophone literature, and enriches this comprehensive exploration of the archaeology of the Pacific War. This book will be of interest to archaeological practitioners, students, and members of the general public working in conflict studies or with an interest in the material culture, history, and legacies of the Pacific War.



The Early Air War in the Pacific

Author : Ralph F. Wetterhahn

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 49,12 MB

Release : 2019-11-29

Category : History

ISBN : 147666997X

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 During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II. Details are included from two expeditions conducted by the author that reveal the location of an American pilot missing in the Philippines since 1942 and clear up a controversial account involving famed Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and U.S. Navy pilot James "Pug" Southerland.



Daughters of the Pacific

Author : Zohl Dé Ishtar

Publisher : Spinifex Press

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 25,87 MB

Release : 1994

Category : History

ISBN : 9781875559329

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Indigenous women from across the Pacific have a voice in this book. Zohl de Ishtar travelled the Pacific during 1986-87 on behalf of Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific and interviewed women of many nations. Following up with extensive research, Zohl de Ishtar has written an impressive book that gives a voice to the Pacific women and shows what strength there is in the underknown cultures, or nearest neighbours. The nuclear industry, tourism, dumping of waste. Pollution of the oceans all carry a huge price for these islands on the rim of the world, and one the rim of our imaginations. Countries covered are: Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Marianas, Guam, Belau, Fiji, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Te Ao Maohi/Tahiti Polynesia.



The Archaeology, History and Heritage of WWII Karst Defenses in the Pacific

Author : Julie Mushynsky

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 203 pages

File Size : 40,86 MB

Release : 2021-03-12

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3030673537

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This book is an archaeological study of the cultures of conflict through an examination of caves and tunnels used during the Pacific War. Referred to here as “karst defenses,” WWII caves and tunnels can be found throughout the karst landscapes of the Pacific. Karst defenses have been hidden, literally by the jungle and figuratively by history, for over 70 years. Based on a study of karst defenses and their related artifacts and oral histories in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, this book uses karst defenses to investigate the varied human experiences before, during and after the Pacific War. Historically, the book reveals new knowledge about the overall defense strategies used in the Pacific. Karst defenses were a central component of Pacific War defense and were constructed and used by civilians, the Japanese military and U.S. troops as early as 1942. Karst defenses also functioned as command posts, hospitals, shelters, storage units and combat positions. The book sheds light on the social aspects that influenced the construction and use of karst defenses, including the fragmented relationship between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Imperial Japanese Army, the social status of civilians under Japanese rule and the clandestine plans of the U.S. in Micronesia. The book also discusses the complex contemporary meanings of this dark, shared heritage.



Annual Report

Author : United States. National Park Service. Water Resources Division

Publisher :

Page : 140 pages

File Size : 10,40 MB

Release : 1997

Category : National parks and reserves

ISBN :

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Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War

Author : Thomas Helling, M.D.

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 475 pages

File Size : 12,39 MB

Release : 2017-01-25

Category : History

ISBN : 1476625670

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Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and heavily defended Japanese islands of the Pacific presented dangers to medical personnel never before encountered in modern warfare, as did the devastating new kamikaze attacks. Sophisticated treatments, including complex surgery, were by necessity far removed from the fighting, requiring front line doctors to do the minimum--often under fire--to stabilize patients until they could be evacuated: "damage control," it would later be called. Navy doctors responsible for thousands of sailors aboard fleets in battle found caring for the wounded daunting or nearly impossible. Yet to save lives, medical resources had to be kept as close as possible to the action. This book systematically details the efforts and innovations of the doctors and surgeons who worked to preserve life under extreme peril.



The Pacific War

Author : Douglas Ford

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 45,60 MB

Release : 2011-12-22

Category : History

ISBN : 1441151656

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Drawing on documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did. The book focuses not only on the battlefield level, but also provides a perspective from the military high command, government, and non-combatant citizens. How did Japan emerge as a Great Power following the breakdown of the Washington Treaty system of 1921-22? What factors propelled Japan's aggressive expansion on the Asian continent during the 1930s? After Pearl Harbor, Japan rapidly conquered Southeast Asia and the western Pacific but the tide of the war shifted in the Allies' favour at Midway and Guadalcanal. The book concludes with the reasons why the Pacific War ended with Japan's unconditional surrender, and the consequences of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.



Pacific Warriors

Author : Eric M. Hammel

Publisher : Zenith Imprint

Page : 271 pages

File Size : 50,6 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945

ISBN : 0760320977

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From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, and more recently from the jungles of Vietnam to the killing fields of Iraq, America's "soldiers of the sea" have fought their country's battles with famed valor, skill, and perseverance in the face of long odds. But where did the U.S. Marines earn their reputation as being the "first to fight?" It was on the South Pacific Island of Guadalcanal. There, on August 7, 1942, the 1st Marine Division stormed ashore to begin one of the most difficult and brutal campaigns of military history, and an unbroken string of victories staged across the Pacific.