Indomitable Will
eBook - ePub

Indomitable Will

Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Indomitable Will

Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway

About this book

Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American people faced a barrage of bad news and accounts of defeats and retreats. Yet if they were shocked and dismayed, they showed little panic. Indomitable Will resurrects the legacy of this first half-year of American combat during WWII -a legacy of pain, but not of woe. Historian Charles Kupfer recounts the story of the war's early defeats: Bataan, Corregidor, Wake Island, and the Java Sea. Some of these battles remain evocative today; others are obscure; all were catastrophes for American arms. Kupfer asserts, however, that later victories were made inevitable by the steeling effect of those initial disasters. Weaving together military, journalistic, political, and cultural histories, this engaging book shows that by setting their collective will on victory, Americans in and out of uniform gained strength from their setbacks. Indomitable Will spells out how the nation turned early defeat into ultimate victory.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780826410689
eBook ISBN
9781441189691
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. 1    Through December 8
  4. 2    December 9–31, 1941
  5. 3    January 1941
  6. 4    February 1942
  7. 5    March 1942
  8. 6    April 1942
  9. 7    May 1942
  10. 8    June 1942
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index