TY  - BOOK
AU  - Astor,Gerald
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Crisis in the Pacific: the battles for the Philippine Islands by the men who fought them 
AV  - D767.4 .A845 1996eb
U1  - 940.54/25 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dell
KW  - Oral history
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Pacific Area
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - In Crisis in the Pacific acclaimed historian Gerald Astor draws on the raw experiences of marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen under fire - from generals and admirals to correspondents, line officers and enlisted men on both sides of the battle lines - to present a view of the critical struggle for the Philippines, the keystone to Japanese domination of the Pacific and to ultimate Allied victory. These accounts, many published here for the first time, are dramatic and graphic, brutal and awe-inspiring. Ranging from the diplomatic and nursing corps' experience of the Japanese conquest and occupation of the islands, to the Bataan death march and first-hand accounts of war crimes inflicted by the Japanese on prisoners of war, to the final push for the hills of Mindanao, Crisis in the Pacific is the first complete history, told in the words of the men and women who were there, of one of the most crucial battlegrounds of World War II
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10002217
ER  -