Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II (Osprey General Military)

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Автор: Jeffrey Cox

Название: Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Серия: Osprey General Military

ISBN: 1780967268

Год: 2014

Формат: PDF (e-book)

Страниц: 394

Размер: 6 Mb

Язык: English

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese offensive in the Far East seemed unstoppable. Allied forces engaged in a futile attempt to halt their rapid advance, culminating in the massed fleet of American, British, Dutch, and Australian forces (ABDA) clashing with the Japanese at the battle of the Java Sea – the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific. But, in a campaign crippled by poor leadership and disastrous decisions, the Allied response was catastrophic, losing their largest warships and their tenuous toe-hold in the south Pacific within the first 72 hours of the battle.