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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The fleet , it seemed to him , was based too far from the potential combat zone . " No matter how strong the bow , " he argued , recalling an ancient Chinese proverb , " an arrow in flight cannot tear the sheerest cloth .
The fleet , it seemed to him , was based too far from the potential combat zone . " No matter how strong the bow , " he argued , recalling an ancient Chinese proverb , " an arrow in flight cannot tear the sheerest cloth .
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0400 , and to them the American order to check fire at 0409 must have seemed like a gift from Heaven , but it was too late to save Yamashiro , as we have seen . She went down off Bugho Point on the east coast of Leyte , taking with her ...
0400 , and to them the American order to check fire at 0409 must have seemed like a gift from Heaven , but it was too late to save Yamashiro , as we have seen . She went down off Bugho Point on the east coast of Leyte , taking with her ...
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To replace a hard - headed banker with a woolly - headed idealist , as Wallace was called , seemed the height of fiscal irresponsibility . Part of the problem was that the huge Reconstruction Finance Corporation , with its vast lending ...
To replace a hard - headed banker with a woolly - headed idealist , as Wallace was called , seemed the height of fiscal irresponsibility . Part of the problem was that the huge Reconstruction Finance Corporation , with its vast lending ...
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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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