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100 1 $aAstor, Gerald,$d1926-2007.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50030708
245 10 $aCrisis in the Pacific :$bthe battles for the Philippine Islands by the men who fought them--an oral history /$cGerald Astor.
260 $aNew York :$bDonald I. Fine Books :$b[Penguin Books USA],$c1996.
263 $a9604
300 $axiii, 478 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 462-464) and index.
520 $aIn Crisis in the Pacific acclaimed historian Gerald Astor draws on the raw experiences of marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen under fire - from generals and admirals to correspondents, line officers and enlisted men on both sides of the battle lines - to present a view of the critical struggle for the Philippines, the keystone to Japanese domination of the Pacific and to ultimate Allied victory.
520 8 $aThese accounts, many published here for the first time, are dramatic and graphic, brutal and awe-inspiring.
520 8 $aRanging from the diplomatic and nursing corps' experience of the Japanese conquest and occupation of the islands, to the Bataan death march and first-hand accounts of war crimes inflicted by the Japanese on prisoners of war, to the final push for the hills of Mindanao, Crisis in the Pacific is the first complete history, told in the words of the men and women who were there, of one of the most crucial battlegrounds of World War II.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zPhilippines.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148340
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zPhilippines.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zPacific Area.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113866
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113356
650 0 $aOral history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095238
852 00 $boff,glx$hD767.4$i.A845 1996