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Victory in Defeat - The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity (Paperback): Gregory J.W. Urwin Victory in Defeat - The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity (Paperback)
Gregory J.W. Urwin
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Facing Fearful Odds - The Siege of Wake Island (Paperback): Gregory J.W. Urwin Facing Fearful Odds - The Siege of Wake Island (Paperback)
Gregory J.W. Urwin
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound psychological effect on the course of the nation's struggle. This was the battle that first raised American spirits in the dark weeks following Pearl Harbor. For sixteen suspenseful days, 449 U.S. Marines, assisted by a handful of sailors and soldiers and a few hundred civilian construction workers, withstood repeated attacks by numerically superior Japanese forces. Although Wake finally fell on 23 December 1941, its garrison made the Japanese pay an embarrassingly high price for a tiny coral outpost. Based on interviews with over seventy American and Japanese participants, the riveting, you-are-there narrative pulsates with the crack of rifles, the stutter of machine guns, the roar of cannon, and the concussion of bombs. This is a military history from the bottom up, an unforgettable reading experience told from the perspective of enlisted men and junior officers who served on the front lines.

The Capture of Attu - A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There (Paperback): Robert J. Mitchell The Capture of Attu - A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There (Paperback)
Robert J. Mitchell; Introduction by Gregory J.W. Urwin
R473 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1942 Attu, the westernmost island in the Aleutian chain, was home to two Americans and forty-five Aleut hunters and their families. Located one thousand miles from the Alaska mainland and isolated by year-round damp fogs which manage to survive the constant high winds, Attu was called by an early visitor "the lonesomest spot this side of hell."

In June 1942 Attu and the nearby island of Kiska were invaded by the Japanese in the hopes of accomplishing several goals: forestalling use of the islands by the Americans, hindering U.S.-Soviet cooperation, and establishing bases for attacks on the American mainland. On 11 May 1943, the U.S. effort to retake Attu began. The struggle was essentially an infantry battle. The ever-present fog, rain, and high wind limited the use of air power, and the craggy terrain made mechanized equipment next to useless. The infantry retook the island foot by foot.

Lieutenant Robert J. Mitchell was one American wounded in the battle. During his convalescence he took down the accounts of the survivors while their memories were fresh. He presents them here in their own immediate, direct, and informal language.

A Complete Life of General George A. Custer, Volume 1 - Through the Civil War (Paperback): Gregory J.W. Urwin A Complete Life of General George A. Custer, Volume 1 - Through the Civil War (Paperback)
Gregory J.W. Urwin; Frederick Whittaker
R738 R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the election year of 1876 the Battle of the Little Big Horn was horrifyingly fresh to opinion makers, who divided along political lines in assigning blame. The late General George A. Custer, who had been a Democrat with aspirations to high office, was more pilloried than praised by President Grant and influential editors of Republican newspapers. Coming to the defense of Custer was Frederick Whittaker, who less than six months after the disaster published this first biography of him. "A Complete Life" was the beginning of a legend, and Whittaker did more than anyone else except Libby Custer to make the flamboyant Boy General a permanent resident of the national consciousness.
Quite aside from its contribution to the public image of Custer, this important book placed him and his associates against a concrete background of onrushing events. Drawing on newspaper reports and the general's own words, Whittaker captures the excitement of the era. In Volume 1 a boy's life in Ohio is made immediate. Then Custer's escapades as a cadet at West Point (where he was called Fanny because of his golden locks), his courtship of Judge Bacon's saucy daughter, and his singular service as a cavalryman in the Civil War are described in vivid circumstantial detail. From the first Battle of Bull Run through Gettysburg and the Virginia campaign he is seen in action, conspicuously defying death and winning promotion. Volume 2 deals with Custer's fighting in the West, ending with a memorable description of his last stand at the Little Big Horn in June 1876.


The introduction to Volume 1 is by Gregory J. W. Urwin, who won praise for "Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General GeorgeArmstrong Custer," also a Bison Book.

Custer Victorious - The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer (Paperback, New edition): Gregory J.W. Urwin Custer Victorious - The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer (Paperback, New edition)
Gregory J.W. Urwin; Foreword by Lawrence A. Frost
R630 R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Save R55 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers most dread--he was outnumbered and completely surrounded. With disaster looming in every quarter and no chance of escape. . . ." So Gregory J. W Urwin pulls the reader into a scene describing not the Battle of the Little Big Horn but a Civil War engagement that George Armstrong Custer and his troop survived, thanks to strategy as much as naked courage.

Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. "Custer Victorious" is the first to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career.

Urwin writes: "None of Custer's exploits against the Plains Indians could compare with those he performed while with the Army of the Potomac." The leader of a brigade called "the Wolverines," Custer was promoted to major general and the helm of the Third Cavalry Division when he was only twenty-four. Urwin describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox.

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