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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey R. Cox is a litigation attorney and an independent military historian specializing in World War II, ancient Greece, and ancient Rome, as well as a contributor to Military History Online (www.militaryhistoryonline.com). He holds a bachelor's degree in National Security Policy Studies from The Ohio State University and has studied the Pacific War since 1981. Klappentext Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East - directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught. It would be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific. Vorwort Author Jeffrey Cox conducts a thorough and compelling investigation of the Java Sea Campaign, the first major sea battle of the Pacific War, which inflicted huge costs on the Allies and set the stage for Japan's rout across the Pacific and Indian oceans. Zusammenfassung Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore. This book tells about the campaign carried by the Japanese forces in the Pacific region. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Chapter 1. On the Day BeforeChapter 2. Just a Little More TimeChapter 3. BreakdownChapter 4. Finding TroubleChapter 5. Shooting at VenusChapter 6. Slapped TogetherChapter 7. Luck - The Battle of BalikpapanChapter 8. Bloody ShamblesChapter 9. Can't Catch a Break - The Battle of the Flores SeaChapter 10. A Thousand CutsChapter 11. Too Clever by Half - The Battle of Badoeng StraitChapter 12. No Breath to Catch - Preliminaries to the Battle of the Java SeaChapter 13. Nerk Nerk Nerk - The Sinking of the LangleyChapter 14. One Shell - Day Action of the Battle of the Java SeaChapter 15. A Turn Too Far - The Second Part of the Battle of the Java SeaChapter 16. A Hopeless Plan - The Escape from JavaChapter 17. Dancing in the Dark - The Battle of Soenda StraitChapter 18. Nowhere to Run - The Second Battle of the Java SeaChapter 19. To the Winds - Escape Attempts from JavaChapter 20. Aftermath - Not Quite Vanquished Notes Bibliography Index ...
