The thousand-mile war : World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians /

The thousand-mile war : World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Garfield, Brian, 1939-2018.
Imprint:	Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 1995.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 456 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Classic reprint series ; no. 4 Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; no. 4.
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands. Military campaigns. Alaska -- Aleutian Islands. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216605

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Varying Form of Title:	1,000-mile war
ISBN:	9781602231177 1602231176 091200682X 9780912006826 0912006838 9780912006833
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.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Garfield, Brian, 1939- Thousand-mile war. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 1995 9780912006833

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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.<br> The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States.<br> Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xix, 456 pages) : illustrations.
Format:	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.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-445) and index.
ISBN:	9781602231177 1602231176 091200682X 9780912006826 0912006838 9780912006833