Target Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
In December 1941, as American forces counted the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military counsellors were planning a counterstrike against Tokyo. The secret bombing mission, led by daredevil Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, was fraught with problems but Doolittle and his men succeeded in striking the heart of the empire in April 1942. The raid buoyed America's morale and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway, turning the tide of the war. But it came at an horrific cost. The Japanese killed an estimated 250,000 Chinese in retaliation. Based on extensive research, Target Tokyo is the comprehensive…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-08962-2
- EAN: 9780393089622
- Produktnummer: 16428627
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 672 S.
- Masse: H24.5 cm x B16.5 cm x D5.4 cm 1'144 g
- Abbildungen: 16 pages of illustrations
- Gewicht: 1144
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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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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