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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 pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd... read more
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First Sentence edit
The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's flotilla of 'black ships' in Tokyo Bay in 1853 heralded Japan's emergence as a modern power after centuries of self-imposed feudalism.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in osprey campaign. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Derrick Wright (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 940
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