The Conquering Tide : War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 Condition:Like New and luring her into a

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The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out

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The Conquering Tide : War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 Condition:Like New and luring her into aThe devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island. This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific Warthe period between mid 1942 and mid 1944when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far flung island empire like a "conquering tide," concluding with Japan's irreversible