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050 00 $aD767$b.T64 2015
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100 1 $aToll, Ian W.
245 14 $aThe conquering tide :$bwar in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 /$cIan W. Toll.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c[2015]
300 $axxxi, 622 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 581-594) and index.
520 $a"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide, ' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal"--Dust jacket flap.
505 0 $a"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War -- the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944 -- when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide, ' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal" -- Dust jacket flap.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zPacific Area.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations, American.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations, Japanese.
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650 7 $aMilitary campaigns.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01710190
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