Bibliograph

Implacable foes, war in the Pacific, 1944-1945, Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio

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Implacable foes, war in the Pacific, 1944-1945, Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Implacable foes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

962442415

Responsibility statement

Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio

Sub title

war in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Summary

At the end of World War Two, Americans clamored for their troops to come home. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. The task of defeating the Japanese seemed nearly unsurmountable, even while plans to invade the home islands were being drawn. In Implacable Foes, award-winning historians Heinrichs and Gallicchio bring to life the final year of World War Two in the Pacific right up to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, evoking not only Japanese policies of desperate defense, but the sometimes rancorous debates on the home front. They deliver a gripping and provocative narrative that challenges the decision-making of U.S. leaders and delineates the consequences of prioritizing the European front

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War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

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