02475nam 2200565 a 450 991081700040332120230410060453.01-60223-117-6(CKB)2560000000014997(EBL)1820985(MiAaPQ)EBC1820985(Au-PeEL)EBL1820985(CaPaEBR)ebr10397768(OCoLC)893740910(OCoLC)1109202313(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110963(EXLCZ)99256000000001499719951013d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe thousand-mile war[electronic resource] World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians /Brian Garfield ; foreword by Terrence ColeFairbanks University of Alaska Press19951 online resource (481 p.)Classic reprint series ;no.4Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1969.0-912006-83-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-445) and index.Buckner's War -- Eareckson's War -- Kinkaid's War.The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this ""forgotten war"" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans.Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ;no. 4.1,000-mile warWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsAlaskaAleutian IslandsAlaskagndAleutengndAlaskaAleutian IslandsfastElectronic books. World War, 1939-1945Campaigns940.54/28Garfield Brian1939-1633884Cole Terrence1953-1633885MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817000403321The thousand-mile war3973859UNINA