Closing the Circle: War in the Pacific, 1945Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1982 - 240 páginas " ... Casts a searchlight on the last eleven weeks of the gigantic convulsion we call World War II ... vividly portrays the effect of high-level decisions that made the choice initially to end the war by amphibious assault on Japan--a holocaust from which we were saved by the fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb. The lesson ... is that power on the sea and liberty are inseparable ..."--Back cover. |
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REENTER HALSEY | 1 |
GET THOSE PLANES | 18 |
THE WATERS OF JAPAN | 27 |
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