Rabaul 1943–44: Reducing Japan's great island fortress

di Mark Lardas (Autore)

Mark Postlethwaite (Illustratore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies’ path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000-strong garrison out. Instead the US began an innovative, hard-fought two-year air campaign to draw its teeth, and allow them to bypass the island completely. The struggle decided more than the fate of Rabaul. If successful, the Allies would demonstrate a new form of warfare, where air power, with a judicious use of naval and land forces, would eliminate the need to occupy a ground objective in order to control it. As it turned out, the Siege of Rabaul proved to be more just than a successful demonstration of air power – it provided the roadmap for the rest of World War II in the Pacific.

• Autore: Mark Lardas
• Illustratore: Mark Postlethwaite
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Collana: Air Campaign
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 96 p.
• Dimensioni: 248 x 184 mm
• Peso: 316 gr.
• EAN: 9781472822444

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