Research Catalog

Title

Tarawa 1943 : the turning of the tide / text by Derrick Wright ; battlescene plates by Howard Gerrard.

Author

Wright, Derrick, 1928-

Publication

Oxford : Osprey Military, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gerrard, Howard

Description

96 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

"The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years." In a daring amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a three-day battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3,000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3,700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Campaign ; 77

Uniform Title

Campaign (Osprey Publishing) 77.

Subject

• 1943
• Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 94) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1841761028

OCLC

• 44785978
• SCSB-12011874

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library