The drama, the humor, the horror, and sometimes the tenderness of men and women confronting their greatest ordeal speak through this absorbing narrative of World War II, told in eyewitness accounts by soldiers, housewives and journalists is the many countries involved.
"Volume IV: The Allies Advance" describes the slogging advance of the Allied armies through Italy, and the Italian surrender; the painful island-hopping by the Americans as they beat the Japanese in the Pacific; and the slow attrition of the Japanese armies in Burma under the British onslaught.
Language
English
Pages
351
Format
Mass Market Paperback
Publisher
Berkeley Publishing Corporation
Release
May 20, 1971
ISBN
0425020087
ISBN 13
0425020087
The Taste Of Courage: Volume IV: The Allies Advance
The drama, the humor, the horror, and sometimes the tenderness of men and women confronting their greatest ordeal speak through this absorbing narrative of World War II, told in eyewitness accounts by soldiers, housewives and journalists is the many countries involved.
"Volume IV: The Allies Advance" describes the slogging advance of the Allied armies through Italy, and the Italian surrender; the painful island-hopping by the Americans as they beat the Japanese in the Pacific; and the slow attrition of the Japanese armies in Burma under the British onslaught.