World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia

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Stanley Sandler
Taylor & Francis, 2001 - 660 Seiten

Stanley Sandler, one of America's most respected and best-known military historians, has brought together over 300 entries by some 200 specialists in the field to create the first encyclopedia specifically devoted to the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Extending far beyond battles and hardware, the coverage ranges from high policy-making, grand strategy, and the significant persons and battles of the conflict, to the organization of the Allied and Japanese divisions, aircraft, armor, artillery, psychological warfare, warships, and the home fronts, covering the interactions of each topic along the way.

 

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Admiral Air Force aircraft carriers airfields Allied American amphibious April armed Army Air army’s artillery Asia assault August Australian base Bataan battalions battle Battle of Midway battleships bombers bombs British Burma campaign captured casualties Chennault Chiang chief of staff China Chindits Chinese civilian combat command Corps cruisers December defeat defense destroyers Douglas MacArthur East enemy engineers equipment fighter fighting Filipino fleet FURTHER READINGS Guadalcanal guerrilla Guinea Imperial India Infantry invasion island Japan Japanese army Japanese attack Japanese forces landing launched Leyte Lieutenant logistics Luzon MacArthur major Manila March Marine Division miles military Nationalist Nimitz offensive officers Okinawa operations Pacific war Pearl Harbor Philippines pilots planes prisoners Rabaul raid Regiment Roosevelt Saipan ships soldiers Southwest Pacific Soviet Stilwell strategic submarine supplies surrender tactical tanks Tokyo torpedo U.S. Army U.S. forces U.S. naval U.S. Navy U.S. Pacific Fleet United victory warfare World World War II

Autoren-Profil (2001)

Stanley Sandler is one of America's best-known military historians. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London Department of War Studies, where he studied under the eminent military historian Sir Michael Howard. He was a Command historian for the US Army Special Operations Command for fourteen years and was a Visiting Professor in the History of Sea Power at the US Naval Academy. He will hold the Edwin Conquest '14 Chair in history at Virginia Military Institute, 1999-2000. Dr. Sandler has received numerous academic and professional awards, including a New York State Regents' Teaching Fellowship, a Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a Secretary of the Army Research and Writing Fellowship. His publications include The Emergence of The Modern Capital Ship (1979), Segregated Skies: The All-black USAAF Squadrons of World War II(1992), The Korean War: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1995), and numerous articles in military history.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelWorld War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia
Military History of the United States Series
HerausgeberStanley Sandler
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagTaylor & Francis, 2001
ISBN0815318839, 9780815318835
Länge660 Seiten
  
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