The fleet at flood tide : America at total war in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Author

James D Hornfischer

Call Number

• 940.545 H816.2 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Bantam Books, [2016]

Physical Description

xxvii, 602 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm

Summary

"Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower"--Amazon.com.

Notes

Map on endpapers.

Contents

• Part One: Sea. Engine of Siege
• On the Western Warpath
• In Turner's Train
• A Charge for Ozawa
• The Outer Colony
• a Rumor of Fleets
• OBB and UDT
• Heavy Weather
• Part Two: Land. Heavier, Higher, Faster
• d Day
• Trail, Attack, Report
• Tank Attack
• The View From the Mountain
• First Contact
• War of the Wind Machines
• Fast Carriers Down
• To Build a Better Airfield
• Beyond Darkness
• Smith versus Smith
• Satan's Breath
• The Dying Game
• Sniper Ship on a Cave Shoot
• Beyond all Boundaries
• Atop Suicide Cliffs
• Regime Change
• Steel Like Snowflakes
• The Will to Lose Hard
• Part Three: Air. Secrets of New Mexico
• Going Critical
• Everybody's Business
• Divine Woods
• Methods of Death on the Wing
• Opportunity and Madness
• Prompt and Utter Destruction
• Clear-cut Results
• Part Four: Earth. Eight Bells for an Empire
• The War Wearies.