(Paperback)
By: Derrick Wright
ISBN: 9781841761787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of the decisive battles of World War II, Iwo Jima was described as "the toughest fight in the 169 years of our corps". The island was of major strategic importance to both the US Air Force and the Japanese. The battle to decide it's fate is recorded here.
(Paperback)
By: Derrick Wright
ISBN: 9781841761022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This title examines the 76-hour battle to take Tarawa by the Americans in 1943. It recounts how a garrison of 3700 Japanese soldiers withstood the onslaught of some 3000 US marines in a pioneering amphibious invasion.
