The color of war : how one battle broke Japan and another changed America / James Campbell.
2012
KF7652.P67 C36 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The color of war : how one battle broke Japan and another changed America / James Campbell.
Edition
1st ed.
Imprint
New York : Crown Publishers, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Description
xvi, 494 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
"Another Sunday, another Pearl Harbor attack"
Big dreams
Leaving Texas
Mosquitoes, mud, and mayhem
Semper fi
Eleanor Roosevelt's niggers
The right to fight
The first
Port Chicago
Bombs for the black boys
Like a dog on a bone
A war of their own
A desolate place
Whom are we fighting this time?
Waiting for war
Broken promises
Ernie King's beloved ocean (the strategic picture)
Baptism by fire
Paradise
Camp Tarawa
Ernie King's victory
Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
Where young men go to die
The terrible shore
A long, bitter struggle
A healthy spirit of competition
The devil's backbone
Valley of the shadow of death
Tapotchau's heights
Gyokusai
Red flags
Island of the dead
Hot cargo
End of the world
Down the barrel of a gun
Proving mutiny
Putting the Navy on trial
Punishing the seamen
The sins of a nation.
Big dreams
Leaving Texas
Mosquitoes, mud, and mayhem
Semper fi
Eleanor Roosevelt's niggers
The right to fight
The first
Port Chicago
Bombs for the black boys
Like a dog on a bone
A war of their own
A desolate place
Whom are we fighting this time?
Waiting for war
Broken promises
Ernie King's beloved ocean (the strategic picture)
Baptism by fire
Paradise
Camp Tarawa
Ernie King's victory
Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
Where young men go to die
The terrible shore
A long, bitter struggle
A healthy spirit of competition
The devil's backbone
Valley of the shadow of death
Tapotchau's heights
Gyokusai
Red flags
Island of the dead
Hot cargo
End of the world
Down the barrel of a gun
Proving mutiny
Putting the Navy on trial
Punishing the seamen
The sins of a nation.
Summary
A retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front. Among the great World War II conflicts, the three-week battle for Saipan is often forgotten--yet historian Donald Miller calls it "as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." On the night of the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just outside San Francisco, exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were predominantly black sailors, toiling in obscurity loading munitions ships. Yet instead of honoring the sacrifice these men made, the Navy blamed them for the accident, and when the men refused to handle ammunition again, launched the largest mutiny trial in US naval history. By weaving together these two battle narratives for the first time, author Campbell paints a new picture of the month that won the war and changed America.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF7652.P67 C36 2012
Language
English
ISBN
0307461238 ebook
9780307461230 ebook
9780307461216
9780307461230 eISBN
0307461211
9780307461230 ebook
9780307461216
9780307461230 eISBN
0307461211
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