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Ian W. Toll 出版社: W. W. Norton & Company 副标题: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 出版年: 2012-11-20 页数: 656 定价: GBP 14.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780393343410
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of th...
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative. This dramatic narrative, relying predominantly on eyewitness accounts and primary sources, is laced with riveting details of heroism and sacrifice on the stricken ships and planes of both navies. At the war s outset, Japan s pilots and planes enjoyed a clear-cut superiority to their American counterparts, but there was a price to be paid. Japanese pilots endured a lengthy and grueling training in which they were disciplined with baseball bats, often suffering broken bones; and the production line of the Zero Japan s superbly maneuverable fighter plane ended not at a highway or railhead but at a rice paddy, through which the planes were then hauled on ox carts. Combat losses, of either pilots or planes, could not be replaced in time to match the fully mobilized American war machine. Pacific Crucible also spotlights recent scholarship that revises our understanding of the conflict, including the Japanese decision to provoke a war that few in their highest circles thought they could win. Those doubters included the flamboyantly brilliant Admiral Isokoru Yamamoto, architect of the raid on Pearl and the Midway offensive. Once again, Ian W. Toll proves himself to be a simply magnificent writer. The result here is a page-turning history that does justice to the breadth and depth of a tremendous subject.
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伊恩·托尔（Ian W. Toll），美国历史作家、海军历史学者。他先后毕业于乔治敦大学和哈佛大学，曾短暂进入政界，之后又投身金融行业，在多家银行担任分析师。但他一直对从事历史研究的梦想念念不忘，2002年开始专心从事写作。
这本书是作者“太平洋战争三部曲”的第一卷，涵盖的内容基本上和电影《决战中途岛》是重合的，描绘了从珍珠港到中途岛的太平洋战争历史。 值得注意的是，这本书英文版的副标题是“the war at sea in Pacific,1941-1942”。所以，这一卷对军事部分的描写，着重于美国航母舰队在...
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太平洋战争开战头半年的进展, 从珍珠港到中途岛, 当然是美方视角. 珍珠港, 珊瑚海和中途岛是以前比较熟悉的, 威克岛的顽强抵抗和42年2月突袭马绍尔-吉尔伯特群岛的细节还是第一次读到.