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Morning Star, Midnight Sun
The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August-October 1942
Taschenbuch von Jeffrey Cox
Sprache: Englisch

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Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Solomon Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.

Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory.

Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific.
Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Solomon Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.

Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory.

Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific.
Über den Autor
Jeffrey R. Cox is a litigation attorney and an independent military historian specializing in World War II, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome. His first interest was in the Pacific War, which he has studied for more than 30 years. A student of history, international affairs, and defence policy for most of his life, Cox holds a degree in National Security Policy Studies from The Ohio State University and a doctorate of jurisprudence from Indiana University School of Law. He is a contributor to Military History Online ([...]) and resides in Indiana.
Zusammenfassung
While the Guadalcanal campaign is well known, relatively little attention has been paid to the Solomons campaign and how the two are interlinked. Combining a forensic eye for detail with a novelist's flair for drama, Cox redresses this imbalance in an engaging and fast-paced new history of a US Navy struggling to improve when faced with its most lethal enemy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: Visitors
Chapter 1. Fighting the Problem
Chapter 2. Makee Learnee
Chapter 3. The Sleeping Watch
Chapter 4. Pandaemonium
Chapter 5. Is He Lucky?
Chapter 6. Pride Goeth.
Chapter 7. "Why Not?"
Chapter 8. "I am Aoba"
Chapter 9. All Hell's Eve
Chapter 10. The Lion Comes
Chapter 11. Not Quite Midway
Chapter 12. And Then There Was One
Epilogue: Far from Satisfactory, Far from Hopeless

NotesBibliographyIndexPhotographsAbout the Author
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472826428
ISBN-10: 1472826426
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cox, Jeffrey
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 235 x 154 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Jeffrey Cox
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,619 kg
Artikel-ID: 113733726
Über den Autor
Jeffrey R. Cox is a litigation attorney and an independent military historian specializing in World War II, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome. His first interest was in the Pacific War, which he has studied for more than 30 years. A student of history, international affairs, and defence policy for most of his life, Cox holds a degree in National Security Policy Studies from The Ohio State University and a doctorate of jurisprudence from Indiana University School of Law. He is a contributor to Military History Online ([...]) and resides in Indiana.
Zusammenfassung
While the Guadalcanal campaign is well known, relatively little attention has been paid to the Solomons campaign and how the two are interlinked. Combining a forensic eye for detail with a novelist's flair for drama, Cox redresses this imbalance in an engaging and fast-paced new history of a US Navy struggling to improve when faced with its most lethal enemy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: Visitors
Chapter 1. Fighting the Problem
Chapter 2. Makee Learnee
Chapter 3. The Sleeping Watch
Chapter 4. Pandaemonium
Chapter 5. Is He Lucky?
Chapter 6. Pride Goeth.
Chapter 7. "Why Not?"
Chapter 8. "I am Aoba"
Chapter 9. All Hell's Eve
Chapter 10. The Lion Comes
Chapter 11. Not Quite Midway
Chapter 12. And Then There Was One
Epilogue: Far from Satisfactory, Far from Hopeless

NotesBibliographyIndexPhotographsAbout the Author
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472826428
ISBN-10: 1472826426
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cox, Jeffrey
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 235 x 154 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Jeffrey Cox
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,619 kg
Artikel-ID: 113733726
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