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de Derrick Wright (Author), Howard Gerrard (Illustrator) "The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's flotilla of 'black ships' in Tokyo Bay in 1853 heralded Japan's emergence as a modern power after centuries of..." En savoir plus
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The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that 'the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years'. This book tells the story of the pioneering amphibious invasion in which the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese.


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Derrick Wright has been interested in the Second World War since childhood and is the author of Tarawa: A Hell of a Way to Die (Windrow & Greene, 1997) and The Battle for lwo Jima (Sutton, 1999). After national Service with the Army, he became an engineer specialising in Ultrasonics, and now retired, he lives with his wife on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. He has four daughters. Howard Gerrard studied at the Wallasey School of Art and has been a freelance designer and illustrator for over 20 years. He has won both the Society of British Aerospace Companies Award and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy and has illustrated a number of books for Osprey including Nagashino 1575 and Jutland 1916. Howard lives and works in Kent.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Misnamed but Good Read, Juil 28 2002
Par Fred M. Blum (San Francisco, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide (Paperback)
Tarawa 1943: The Turning of the Tide is a well written, but short history of the invasion of the island. It is misnamed, since the author himself correctly describes Midway as the turning point. But that aside, this is a good book.

In fact Tarawa is a perfect battle for the Osprey series since the battle was basically fought over a three day period. The book does an excellent job describing not only the troop movements but the human toll that the invasion caused. One is continually reminded that the conquest of Tarawa was paid for in too much human blood.

This is a good read. Excellent maps are an added bonus.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 A Useful Summary of the Marine Corps Epic, Janv. 12 2001
Par R. A Forczyk (Laurel, MD USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide (Paperback)
British amateur historian Derrick Wright has written a thorough summary of the US Marine Corps landing on Tarawa Atoll in November 1943. The subtitle, "the turning of the tide" is not appropriate however, since the tide of victory had already turned against the Japanese a year earlier at Midway and Guadalcanal.

The author covers the battle in succinct but thorough day-by-day detail, from the marine landing to the conquest of the island three days later. There are three appendices covering US and Japanese orders of battle and USMC casualties. The three-D maps are good, but propably should have been zoomed in a bit more, since the area of fighting was quite small.

There are no major flaws in the book, which does cover well-travelled ground after all, but there are several areas that could have been given better elaboration. First, since this was the first major opposed landing for the US Marine Corps in the Second World War, a bit more space should have been given to amphibious doctrine. Was the landing conducted in accord with existing doctrine and how was doctrine modified? Second, the US Army landings on Makin should have been given a map and a little more detail.

Otherwise, this is another useful, if not ground-breaking, Osprey Campaign summary. The photographs are quite good also.

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