Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tatawa
by COL Joseph Alexander
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1557500312
- ISBN 13
- 9781557500311
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1995. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head, tail, and front upper tip. No DJ. Black paper over boards with back overlay on the spine with black lettering in a gilt shadowbox on the spine. 304 pp 8vo. This book describes the first trial by fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, the violent three-day attack on Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress of barely three hundred acres, left six thousand men dead. This book offers an authoritative account of the tactics, innovations, leadership, and weapons employed by both antagonists. Alexander convincingly argues that without the vital lessons of Tarawa the larger amphibious victories to come at Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa might not have been possible. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016535
- Title
- Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tatawa
- Author
- COL Joseph Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1557500312
- ISBN 13
- 9781557500311
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Place of Publication
- Annapolis, MD
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- World War II, South Pacific, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, Island Hopping, Amphibious Landings, Tarawa Island, Betio Island, amphibious assault, Tarawa Atoll, 2nd Marine Division, Gilbert Islands,
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