Are you looking for place to read full E-Books without downloading? Here you can read Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War. You can also read and download new and old full E-Books. Enjoy and relax Reading full Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the WarBooks online.
Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War info
From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoruku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy's plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.
Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our worl