Line Of Departure: Tarawa
by Russ, Martin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company - A Main Street Book, 1975. Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 206 pages indexed. Endpaper maps. Black and maroon boards with gold spine. Illustratrated with black and white photos and maps. Maps drawn by Rafael Palacios. The dramatic account of the starting point of defeating the Japanese in the Islands of the Pacific, the heavily fortified Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, garrisoning nearly five thousand Japanese troops, and their Japanese commandant boasted, A million men cannot take Tarawa in a hundred years. But 5,600 Marines took it in three days, and only 17 Japanese surived. Here is the amazing story behind the brave men who made Tarawa the line of departure---the start of an unprecedented parade of victories that was to end at Iwo Jimo and Okinawa.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5079
- Title
- Line Of Departure: Tarawa
- Author
- Russ, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company - A Main Street Book
- Place of Publication
- Garden City New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 5 1/2" x 8 1/2
- Keywords
- War Pacific Japanese United States Navy
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