The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians

Brian Garfield
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Several Dog Eared Pages light underlining - text visable - The 1942 Japanese invasion of two of the Aleutian Islands, the thousand-mile archipelago west of Alaska, represents the only time in modern history that American territory has been occupied by a foreign power. The ensuing fifteen-month campaign, memorialised in John Huston's extraordinary documentary film, was 'the weirdest war ever waged': a terrible, elemental and always three-sided battle, between the Americans, the Japanese
Genres: HistoryNonfictionWorld War IIWarMilitary HistoryMilitary FictionAmerican HistoryJapan20th CenturyAmerican
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