Two Fronts, One War
Published on 2. October 2014
212 pages
978-1-4738-3636-5 (ISBN)
Description
War is the story of individuals painted into a broader tapestry of overpowering events. While examining the wider historical perspective to lay the foundation, this book relates the individual stories of the Second World War - of Allied bomber pilots shot down over Germany, of American dogfaces fighting to grip a toehold on Iwo Jima, of men struggling for survival during the Bataan Death March, of tankers in Europe and pilots who flew the first B-29s against Japan's mainland, of incredible feats of heroism and self-sacrifice, even of great wartime romances.**The author interviewed more than two dozen U.S. veterans for this book. Most of these stories have never before been published. Together, they provide a true account of what the war was really like for those individuals who actually fought it on the two main fronts of the war - Europe and the South Pacific.
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Charles W. Sasser
Two Fronts, One War: Dramatic eyewitness accounts of major events in the European and Pacific theatres of operations on land, sea and air in WWII
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Plates and Maps
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Japanese Victories
- Saving Dorie Miller
- Taking the Philippines
- The March
- Chapter 2: Battle for the Aleutians
- Bitter Cold
- Chapter 3: South Pacific Ordeal
- Shark Attack
- Chapter 4: Mediterranean Battles
- Scalps
- Up Front
- Chapter 5:The Bombing of Germany
- The Encounter
- Paying the Price
- Survivor
- Chapter 6: Prisoners of War
- The Diary
- Chapter 7: Mediterranean Air Force
- When Your Number Is Up
- Chapter 8: Invading Europe
- Pray and Pass the Ammunition
- Airborne Assault
- McNasty
- Chapter 9: Pacific Island-Hopping
- Marine Sergeant
- Chapter 10: Black Americans at War
- Panther Battalion
- Chapter 11: Fighter Combat
- Quapaw Squaw
- Chapter 12: Market Garden
- A Bridge Too Far
- Chapter 13: The Battle of the Bulge
- The Cross
- Massacre at Wereth
- Chapter 14: Iwo Jima Ordeal
- On the Island
- Chapter 15: Prisoners of the Japanese
- The Raid
- Chapter 16: Love in War
- Taffy and the Colonel
- The End in Europe
- Chapter 17: Preparing for Armageddon
- Keep 'Em Running
- "Little Boy"
- Chapter 18: At the Bitter End
- Too Late to Fight
- Final Plans
- The Last Air Raid
- Chapter 19: Ending the War
- The Camp
- Chapter 20: Punishing the Guilty
- Hangings at Nuremberg
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
