Name: No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944 (American Military Experience) (en Inglés)
SKU: 62900793
Price: 707.97 MXN
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Author: Rona Simmons
ISBN: 9780826223173

portada No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944 (American Military Experience) (en Inglés)

No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944 (American Military Experience) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Missouri

Autor

Rona Simmons

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

298

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Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780826223173

No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944 (American Military Experience) (en Inglés)

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On Tuesday, October 24, 1944, nearly three years after the United States entered World War II, over 2,600 Americans perished--more than on any other single day of the conflict--yet the day remains overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history. Drawing from the accounts of men from diverse backgrounds who served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps, Rona Simmons offers a gripping retelling of the fateful day, hour by hour and incident by incident. The book begins with Army Private First Class Paul Miller's demise in a prisoner of war camp and ends with the death of Navy Seaman Second Class Wanza E. Matthews after the Japanese submarine I-56 attacked his ship off New Guinea. The sinking of the Japanese "hellship" Arisan Maru--a lesser-known tragedy of the war--looms large, deftly interwoven through each part of the narrative. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of No Average Day is its attention to the human side of conflict, telling the stories of ordinary individuals--clerks, radio operators, cooks, sailors, machinist mates, riflemen, and pilots and their air crews--as they grapple with the horrors of the war. Despite its narrow focus, or perhaps because of it, No Average Day reveals the vastness of World War II through a consideration of the largely overlooked events that unfolded on what, for members of the US Armed Forces, was its deadliest day.