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Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa

Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa

Alexander, Estate Of Joseph H., USMC (Ret ).

Paperback

Armed ForcesJapanese History

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 159114003X
ISBN13: 9781591140030
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Marine combat veteran and award-winning military historian Joseph Alexander takes a fresh look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. His gripping narrative, first published in 1995, has won him many prizes, with critics lauding his use of Japanese documents and his interpretation of the significance of what happened. The first trial by fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, the violent three-day attack on Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress of barely three hundred acres, left six thousand men dead. This book offers an authoritative account of the tactics, innovations, leadership, and weapons employed by both antagonists. Alexander convincingly argues that without the vital lessons of Tarawa the larger amphibious victories to come at Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa might not have been possible.

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