Tarawa
The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles
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وصف الناشر
In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod’s battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive.
This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very end, and through his writing, shares every detail.
مراجعات العملاء
Good read, flawed text
This is a really compelling read, but it’s horribly let down by the complete lack of proofreading about a third of the way in. I think the text was scanned, but not ever read or cleaned up. It’s worth a read for sure.
Typos detract from the value of this book
This is an important volume in understanding the context of the fight in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was contemporaneously written by a correspondent embedded on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the typos introduced in the digitization of the e-book show what little care and value the modern caretakers of these volumes put into their efforts. There is probably at least one typo per page, and often more. The author would be horrified at the representation of his original work.