Guam
the battle for an american island in world war ii
$123.44
- Hardcover
600 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2025
Summary
Guam: The Epic Battle for Liberation
In this sequel to Saipan, James Hallas tells the dramatic story of the battle for Guam in World War II, the next stage of the United States’ pivotal campaign for the Mariana Islands—and the beginning of the end for the Japanese Empire.
In December 1941, Japan captured Guam, the largest island of the Marianas archipelago and an American territory since 1898, and turned it into a naval and air base, a supply dump, and a massive pri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811776899 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0811776891 |
| Author: | James H. Hallas |
| Publisher: | Stackpole Books |
| Imprint: | Stackpole Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 957g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“The World War II battle for Guam doesn’t get the attention that popular historians reserve for better-known Pacific epic fights on Okinawa or Iwo Jima, but author James Hallas is about to correct that… The book is exhaustively detailed, and tells numerous individual stories drawn from personal accounts… Military history aficionados will find plenty to pore over.”– “Stars and Stripes”
About The Author
James H. Hallas
James H. Hallas is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and spent four decades in the newspaper business as reporter, editor, and publisher. He is the author of Fly Boy Heroes (Stackpole, 2022), Saipan (Stackpole, 2019), and Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima (Stackpole, 2016). He lives in Portland, Connecticut.
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