Big week: six days that changed the course of World War II [Berkley Caliber trade paperback edition] 9781101618967, 9781322798950, 1322798958

In just six days, the United States Strategic Air Forces changed the course of military offense in World War II. During

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English Pages (xix, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Year 2012;2014

Big week: six days that changed the course of World War II [Berkley Caliber trade paperback edition]
9781101618967, 9781322798950, 1322798958

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate

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During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first r

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-They carried the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores.--JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER III, Office of Scientific Resear

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Focuses on the events and ramifications of the Six-Day War of 1967 and argues that the conflict between the Arabs and th

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Found upside down in an Alaskan bog in the eighth month of our war with Japan, a Japanese fighter plane was retrieved an

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Ancient and medieval. -- Prehistoric art -- Egyptian art -- Greek and Roman art -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- The

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From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confede

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