Название: War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945
Автор: James P. Duffy
Издательство: Dutton Caliber
ISBN: 0451418301
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 448
Размер: 21,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II”General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea.
One American soldier called it œa green hell on earth. Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps”New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the Empires strategy to knock Australia out of the war. Allied Commander-in-Chief General Douglas MacArthur committed 340,000 Americans, as well as tens of thousands of Australian, Dutch, and New Guinea troops, to retake New Guinea at all costs.