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The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that 'the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years'. This book tells the story of the pioneering amphibious invasion in which the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese.
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Derrick Wright has been interested in the Second World War since childhood and is the author of Tarawa: A Hell of a Way to Die (Windrow & Greene, 1997) and The Battle for lwo Jima (Sutton, 1999). After national Service with the Army, he became an engineer specialising in Ultrasonics, and now retired, he lives with his wife on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. He has four daughters. Howard Gerrard studied at the Wallasey School of Art and has been a freelance designer and illustrator for over 20 years. He has won both the Society of British Aerospace Companies Award and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy and has illustrated a number of books for Osprey including Nagashino 1575 and Jutland 1916. Howard lives and works in Kent.
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The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's flotilla of 'black ships' in Tokyo Bay in 1853 heralded Japan's emergence as a modern power after centuries of self-imposed feudalism. Read the first page
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