Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

I Will Run Wild (MP3-Download)

The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway Ungekürzte Lesung. 747 Min.
Sprecher: Fuller, Lance C

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents I Will Run Wild by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by Lance C Fuller. This fascinating volume offers a vivid narrative history of the early stages of the Pacific War, as US and Allied forces desperately tried to slow the Japanese onslaught that began with the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In many popular histories of the Pacific War, the period from the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor to the US victory at Midway is often passed over because it is seen as a period of darkness. Indeed, it is easy to see the period as one of unmitigated disaster for the Allies, with the fall of the Philippines, Malaya, Burma and the Dutch East Indies, and the wholesale retreat and humiliation at the hands of Japan throughout Southeast Asia. However, there are also stories of courage and determination in the face of overwhelming odds: the stand of the Marines at Wake Island; the fighting retreat in the Philippines that forced the Japanese to take 140 days to accomplish what they had expected would take 50; the fight against the odds at Singapore and over Java; the stirring tale of the American Volunteer Group in China; and the beginnings of resistance to further Japanese expansion. In these events, there are many individual stories that have either not been told or not been told widely which are every bit as gripping as the stories associated with the turning tide after Midway. I Will Run Wild draws on extensive first-hand accounts and fascinating new analysis to tell the story of Americans, British, Dutch, Australians and New Zealanders taken by surprise from Pearl Harbor to Singapore that first Sunday of December 1941, who went on to fight with what they had at hand against a stronger and better-prepared foe, and in so doing built the basis for a reversal of fortune and an eventual victory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Osprey Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472844514
• Artikelnr.: 70157616

Autorenporträt

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: I Knew My Plans Had Changed
Chapter Two: The Rising Sun
Chapter Three: Preparation In The Philippines
Chapter Four: Alamo Of The Pacific
Chapter Five: Opening Blow In The Philippines
Chapter Six: A Fighting Retreat
Chapter Seven: The Forgotten Campaign:
Chapter Eight: The Malay Barrier
Chapter Nine: Reinforcement
Chapter Ten: The Tigers Of Burma
Chapter Eleven: The Great Escape
Chapter Twelve: Indies Finale
Chapter Thirteen: The Guarantee Of Victory
Chapter Fourteen: Go Forward, Fight Well
Chapter Fifteen: The Defense Of Darwin
Chapter Sixteen: Our Target Is Tokyo
Chapter Seventeen: Ramsey's Lambsies
Chapter Eighteen: Victory Disease
Chapter Nineteen: A New And Shining Page
Chapter Twenty: Six Deadly Minutes

Rezensionen

Authoritative and colourful—a must-read account of the initial phase of the war in the Pacific.