Images Of War: The Real Story Of World War Ii - Marianas Turkey Shoot: 12 June To 3 August 1944
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; souvenir newspaper and campaign included.
The Pacific Theatre's most decisive aerial engagement comes to vivid life in this gripping instalment of the Images of War partwork series, issue 34, published by Marshall Cavendish in association with the Imperial War Museum. Covering the ferocious period from 12 June to 3 August 1944, this edition chronicles the Battle of the Philippine Sea — immortalised as the Marianas Turkey Shoot — in which American naval aviators decimated the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier air power in a single, catastrophic day of combat, alongside the brutal land campaigns for Saipan and Guam. Each issue of Images of War: The Real Story of World War II is a meticulously curated package, combining a full-colour magazine, a period newspaper facsimile (here, a Chicago Tribune front page headlining wartime news), and a detailed campaign map — together presenting a uniquely immersive, multi-layered account of the conflict. The series argues that the true texture of the Second World War is best understood through primary sources: photographs, maps, and the contemporary press. With the Zero Pilot's perspective also examined, this issue raises a haunting question — what did it feel like to fight on the losing side of history's most one-sided air battle?
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; souvenir newspaper and campaign included.
The Pacific Theatre's most decisive aerial engagement comes to vivid life in this gripping instalment of the Images of War partwork series, issue 34, published by Marshall Cavendish in association with the Imperial War Museum. Covering the ferocious period from 12 June to 3 August 1944, this edition chronicles the Battle of the Philippine Sea — immortalised as the Marianas Turkey Shoot — in which American naval aviators decimated the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier air power in a single, catastrophic day of combat, alongside the brutal land campaigns for Saipan and Guam. Each issue of Images of War: The Real Story of World War II is a meticulously curated package, combining a full-colour magazine, a period newspaper facsimile (here, a Chicago Tribune front page headlining wartime news), and a detailed campaign map — together presenting a uniquely immersive, multi-layered account of the conflict. The series argues that the true texture of the Second World War is best understood through primary sources: photographs, maps, and the contemporary press. With the Zero Pilot's perspective also examined, this issue raises a haunting question — what did it feel like to fight on the losing side of history's most one-sided air battle?