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Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa
Utmost Savagery The Three Days of Tarawa
Author: Joseph H. Alexander
On November 20, l943, in the first trial by fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, five thousand men stormed the beaches of Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the Pentagon parking lots (three-hundred acres!). Before the first day ended, one third of the Marines who had crossed Tarawa&...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781557500311
ISBN-10: 1557500312
Publication Date: 9/1995
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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