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I Will Run Wild : The Pacific War From Pearl Harbor to Midway by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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This fascinating volume - now available in paperback offers a vivid narrative history of the early stages of the Pacific War, as US and Allied forces desperately tried to slow the Japanese onslaught that began with the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In many popular histories of the Pacific War, the period from the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor to the US victory at Midway is often passed over because it is seen as a period of darkness. Indeed, it is easy to see the period as one of unmitigated disaster for the Allies, with the fall of the Philippines, Malaya, Burma and the Dutch East Indies, and the wholesale retreat and humiliation at the hands of Japan throughout Southeast Asia. However, there are also stories of courage and determination in the face of overwhelming odds: the stand of the Marines at Wake Island; the fighting retreat in the Philippines that forced the Japanese to take 140 days to accomplish what they had expected would take 50; the fight against the odds at Singapore and over Java; the stirring tale of the American Volunteer Group in China; and the beginnings of resistance to further Japanese expansion. In these events, there are many individual

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Author

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472841322

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (195 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14