John A Adams

If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War

An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Naval historians and armchair strategists alike will find much food for thought in these engrossing pages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 180mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780253351050
• ISBN-10: 0253351057
• Artikelnr.: 23365660

Autorenporträt

John A. Adams

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
1. Sink Ten Ships and We Win the War!
2. Initial Japanese Strategic Choices
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Yamamoto Defies Mahan
5. Guadalcanal
6. Central versus South Pacific
7. Two Prongs Divide the Fleet
8. Decisive Combat in the Marianas
9. From Honolulu's Conference Table to Leyte's Mud
10. The Naval Campaign for the Philippines
11. Mahan and the Submariners
12. Dulling the Mighty Blade
13. B-San
Notes
Bibliography
Index