Название: Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor
Автор: John Burton
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2006
Страниц: 369
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 15 MB
While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia. From Wake Island to Burma, the Empire of Japan opened the largest front in the history of warfare: an aircraft-driven invasion of colonial possessions throughout the Far East that crumbled the entire Western imperial legacy of the nineteenth-century. Events during the first two weeks of battle set the stage for the greatest military defeats America and Great Britain would suffer during any conflict.
