Years to Victory"Beginning with 'the loneliest man in the world,' General Dwight D. Eisenhower, making his decision to proceed with Operation Overlord, Years to Victory recounts the last years of World War II from the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to the utter defeat and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. As the dignitaries assembled on the deck of the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2, 1945, the Axis had been totally destroyed."--Book Jacket. |
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There is a 20 - foot - wide road that winds through narrow defiles and across two 2,000 - foot passes , both dominated by mountains well suited to military defense . At times the gradient of the road is 1 in 10 , and in autumn ...
There is a 20 - foot - wide road that winds through narrow defiles and across two 2,000 - foot passes , both dominated by mountains well suited to military defense . At times the gradient of the road is 1 in 10 , and in autumn ...
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Not that much observation of any military sort went on , for Guam was conveniently forgotten by all but a succession of naval officers sent out there as governors . The United States did much to improve the health and education of the ...
Not that much observation of any military sort went on , for Guam was conveniently forgotten by all but a succession of naval officers sent out there as governors . The United States did much to improve the health and education of the ...
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In accordance with military logic , Colonel Ogata would have surrendered the day Saipan fell , but the Japanese did not fight according to military logic . It was to be another futile fight to the last man .
In accordance with military logic , Colonel Ogata would have surrendered the day Saipan fell , but the Japanese did not fight according to military logic . It was to be another futile fight to the last man .
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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| Titel | Years to Victory |
| Autor/in | Henry Hitch Adams |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | McKay, 1973 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Nov. 2006 |
| ISBN | 0679140077, 9780679140078 |
| Länge | 507 Seiten |
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