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Varying Form of Title: | 1,000-mile war
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ISBN: | 9781602231177 1602231176 091200682X 9780912006826 0912006838 9780912006833
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-445) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this ""forgotten war"" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. T.
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Other form: | Print version: Garfield, Brian, 1939- Thousand-mile war. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 1995 9780912006833
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