Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryLike Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken...Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era. —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily BeastOn April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan's factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America's morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. D…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-24676-6
- EAN: 9780393246766
- Produktnummer: 34247759
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'067 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 pages of illustrations
Über den Autor
James M. Scott is the author of Rampage, Target Tokyo, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The War Below, and The Attack on the Liberty. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
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