Fire and fortitude : the US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Resource Information

The work Fire and fortitude : the US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Fire and fortitude : the US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Title remainder

the US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Statement of responsibility

John C. McManus

Title variation

US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Creator

• McManus, John C., 1965-

Author

• McManus, John C., 1965-

Subject

• History
• Military campaigns
• Military campaigns
• Pacific Area
• Pacific Area
• United States, Army
• 1939-1945
• United States, Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
• United States, Army
• History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"John C. McManus, one of our most highly-acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor--a rude awakening for a ragtag militia woefully unprepared for war--to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly-desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and America evolved from an inward-looking nation into a global superpower."--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/26

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

D767

LC item number

.M36 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult