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    Gerald Morton Astor fue un maestro historiador cuyo trabajo se centró principalmente en las profundas y a menudo brutales experiencias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sus narrativas profundizaron en el costo humano del conflicto, examinando el combate desde las perspectivas de los soldados en tierra y las decisiones estratégicas tomadas por los líderes. Astor exploró momentos y campañas cruciales con un detalle meticuloso, arrojando luz sobre el coraje y el sacrificio de los involucrados. Su escritura también abarcó dimensiones sociales y políticas significativas de la guerra, incluidas las luchas de los afroamericanos en el ejército y la compleja relación entre la presidencia y el conflicto armado.

    World War II Library: Crisis in the Pacific
    Wings of gold. Book III, The hot Pilots
    The Right to Fight

    • World War II Library: Crisis in the Pacific

      The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them

      • 672 páginas
      • 24 horas de lectura

      From the depths of defeat...On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion.With an undersupplied patchwork army at his command, General Douglas MacArthur led a valiant defense of the Philippines. When defeat came, MacArthur swore he would return, while thousands of POWs fell into Japanese hands — and faced a living hell that many would not survive.To the dawn of victory...In this gripping oral history, Gerald Astor brings to life the struggle to recapture the the men who did the fighting, the battles that set the stage for an Allied invasion, and the acts of astounding courage and desperation that marked the campaign on both sides.From Corregidor to the Battle for Manila, from horrifying jungle warfare to cataclysmic clashes at sea, on beachheads and in the air, Crisis in the Pacific draws on the words of the men who were there — capturing this crucial heroic struggle for victory against Japan.

      World War II Library: Crisis in the Pacific2002

    • The Right to Fight

      A History of African Americans in the Military

      • 576 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      Although African Americans have always fought and died in defense of their country, even before there was a United States of America, it has always been an uphill struggle for them to partake of this fundamental obligation of citizenship. Despite hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary. European Americans, both well meaning and hostile, have persisted in questioning the ability of African Americans to fight in mortal combat for their country. So widespread and deep seated were these prejudices that supposedly scientific studies were used to try to keep African Americans from flying combat aircraft in World War II. Even today, with the armed forces fully integrated and following the ascension of Colin Powell to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest uniformed post in America's military, race still matters. Yet, as shown in The Right to Fight, the valorous service of African Americans in defense of their country is all the more remarkable given the nature of the society they have defended.

      The Right to Fight1998
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