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Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944 – 1945

by Marc Gallicchio & Waldo Heinrich

May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day—shortened to “V.E. Day”—brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring and summer of 1945 had turned into a grueling campaign of bloody attrition aga

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

728

ISBN

9780190931520