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In June 1942, Japanese planes bombed the town of Dutch Harbour in the Aleutian Islands, the chain of islands at the western tip of Alaska that curves out into the northern Pacific for a thousand miles. Then, Japanese troops invaded and took the two western islands of Kiska and Attu - the first and only time in modern history that American territory has been occupied. What ensued was, in the words of one USAF Liberator bomber pilot, 'the weirdest war ever waged': the fifteen-month campaign by the US to re-take the Aleutians: a terrible, attritional and always three-sided battle - between the the Americans, the Japanese and, above all, the weather. Several years ago the extraordinary documentary film of the campaign shot by the legendary Hollywood director John Huston was shown at the NFT and on Channel 4. Brian Garfield's book, written with a novelist's narrative gift, is the definitive history of this remarkable conflict, fought out among 100-mile-an-hour winds, blizzards and impenetrable fog, and with brutal slaughter and privation. In proportion to the number of troops involved, the eventual liberation of Attu was second only to Iwo Jima in its casualties.
| ISBN-13 | 9781845130190 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1845130197 |
| Weight | 1.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.61 x 6.57 x 1.57 In |
| List Price | $25.72 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 384 pages |
| Publisher | Aurum Press Ltd |
| Published On | 2004-08-01 |
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