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Format:
Book
Title:
D-Days in the Pacific
ISBN:
9780743269292
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Physical Description:
xi, 426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Comprised of selected, greatly revised and expanded chapters from The story of World War II, as well as additional new material"--Title page verso.

"A Lou Reda book."
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- A note for the reader -- A note on Japanese names -- Photo credits -- 1. The Rising Sun -- 2. The Hard Way Back -- 3. Amphibious Advance -- 4. Saipan -- A Marine at Peleliu -- 6. The Return -- 7. The B-29s -- 8. Uncommon Valor -- 9. Okinawa -- 10. The Setting Sun -- 11. Victory -- Epilogue : Remembering -- Pacific D-Day Invasions : 1942-1945 -- Organization of the United States ground forces, World War II -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
Presents a comprehensive study of the extensive Allied campaign to retake the Pacific islands from the Japanese and includes eyewitness accounts of the battles from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with a number of photographs and maps.
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