War Stories II,9780895261090

War Stories II

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Edition: VHS
ISBN13: 9780895261090
ISBN10: 089526109X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-11-15
Publisher(s): Regnery History
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Summary

From the awared winning and number one rated Fox News Channel hosted by Oliver North, War Stories highlights the most riveting stories of monumental battles in American history. North brings to life the heroic and sometimes gruesome World War II battles from the Pacific.

Author Biography

Oliver L. North is a combat-decorated Marine who served in Vietnam and was counter-terrorism coordinator for the United States from 1983 to 1986. He is a New York Times bestselling author of six books-including War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom. In addition to hosting War Stories on the Fox News Channel, North is a popular speaker, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, and has covered U.S. Marine and Army forces in Afghanistan and Iraq while embedded with combat units.

Table of Contents

Preface: Prelude to the War in the Pacific (1930-1941) 1(6)
Who Fired First? (7-8 December 1941)
7(26)
The Fall of the Philippines (January 1942)
33(18)
A Hell Worse Than War: The Bataan Death March (April 1942)
51(20)
Revenge for Pearl Harbor: The Doolittle Raid (April 1942)
71(24)
An Awakened Giant: The Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942)
95(16)
Turning Point: The Battle of Midway (June 1942)
111(20)
The Flying Tigers (1937-1945)
131(16)
The Forgotten Front: China-Burma-India Theater (1937--1945)
147(20)
Death by Inches: Guadalcanal (August 1942-February 1943)
167(36)
The Black Sheep Squadron (August 1943--January 1944)
203(20)
Bloody Tarawa (November 1943)
223(26)
Assault on the Marianas (June--August 1944)
249(22)
Forgotten Peleliu (September 1944)
271(22)
``I Have Returned'': The Battle of Leyte (October 1944)
293(32)
The Daring Rescue of the Ghosts of Bataan (January 1945)
325(22)
Iwo Jima: The Bloodiest Battle of World War II (February--March 1945)
347(26)
Okinawa: The Last Battle (April 1945)
373(24)
MacArthur and War's End (July--August 1945)
397(22)
Epilogue: After the War 419(16)
Timeline 435(16)
Glossary 451(4)
Acknowledgments 455(4)
Index 459

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