Pacific Crucible War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942

Name: Pacific Crucible War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942
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ISBN: 9780393343410

ISBN-10: 0393343413

ISBN-13: 9780393343410

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ian W. Toll

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On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.This dramatic narrative, relying predominantly on eyewitness accounts and primary sources, is laced with riveting details of heroism and sacrifice on the stricken…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.19" long x 1.67" tall
Weight: 2.002

Ian W. Toll is an independent naval historian, the author of Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 and Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. Six Frigates won broad critical acclaim and was selected for the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the William E. Colby Award, and New York Times "Editor's Choice" list. He lives in San Francisco.