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Edwin P. Hoyt, an American military historian and journalist, served in the US Air Force, worked for the War Information Office from 1943 to 1945, and later became a journalist and taught at the university. In the book 1944: The War in the Central Pacific takes readers to the center of the fighting of the American Pacific Fleet, which took place during the American advance through Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Saipan, the conquest of Guam and Tinian, until June 1944, when they managed to break through Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central Pacific.
The author shows the battles from both the American and Japanese perspectives. In addition to describing the events, the view behind the curtain of top US command leaders, including disagreements over the Central Pacific’s most effective move toward the Japanese islands.
The book 1944: The War in the Central Pacific is the second part of Hoyt’s trilogy devoted to the American struggle against the Japanese in the Pacific. The main theme of the first part, Storm over the Gilbert Islands, which was published in 2019, is the invasion of Tarawa and Makin. The final part of the 1945 battle is described in the third part, The Circle Closes, the release of which is planned for 2022.
Year of publication: 2021
language: Czech
Publisher: Nase vojsko
Binding, number of pages: Binding, 352 pages + 16 pages of pictorial appendix
Dimensions: 145 x 205 mm
Оriginal
Edwin P. Hoyt, americky vojensky historik a novinar, slouzil u americkeho letectva, v letech 1943–1945 pracoval v Uradu pro valecne informace, pozdeji se venoval zurnalistice a ucil na univerzite. V knize 1944?: Valka ve strednim Tichomori ctenare zavadi do centra boju americkeho Tichomorskeho lodstva, ktere se odehravaly pri postupu Americanu pres Eniwetok, Kwajalein a Saipan, dobyti Guamu a Tinianu, az do cervna 1944, kdy se jim pri invazi na Marianske ostrovy dari prorazit japonsky obranny perimetr ve strednim Tichomori.
Autor ukazuje bitvy z americkeho i japonskeho pohledu. Krome samotneho popisu vyvoje udalosti prinasi pohled za oponu rozhodovani nejvyssich spicek americkeho veleni, vcetne rozporu v nazorech na co nejucinnejsi postup strednim Pacifikem ve smeru k japonskym ostrovum.
Kniha 1944?: Valka ve strednim Tichomori je druhym dilem Hoytovy trilogie venovane bojum Americanu proti Japoncum v Pacifiku. Hlavnim tematem prvniho dilu, Boure nad Gilbertovymi ostrovy, ktery vysel v roce 2019, je invaze na Tarawu a Makin. Zaverecne boje v roce 1945 popisuje treti dil, Kruh se uzavira, jehoz vydani je planovano na rok 2022.
Rok vydani: 2021
Jazyk: Cesky
Nakladatel: Nase vojsko
Vazba, pocet stran: Vazana, 352 stran + 16 stran obrazova priloha
Rozmery: 145 x 205 mm
