Format:
Video disc
Title:
World War II. The Pacific theater
Other title(s):
Pacific theater
World War Two. The Pacific theater
World War 2. The Pacific theater
ISBN:
9781629979502
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2020]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm).
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General Note:
"Course no. 8756"
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
"This series of lectures contains images which may disturb some viewers, including documentary wartime footage"--Preliminary sequence.
Contents:
disc 1. The road to war in the Pacific, 1931-1941 ; Infamy! : the Japanese attack Pearl habor ; Japan moves South, December 1941-May 1942 ; The Doolittle raid on Japan, April 1942 ; Station HYPO : breaking the Japanese code ; Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942 -- disc 2. Midway : 10 minutes that changed the War ; Guadalcanal : jungle warfare ; Ironbottom Sound, 1942-1943 ; MacArthur, Halsey, and Operation Cartwheel ; The Big Blue Fleet and American industry ; Battle for Tarawa : a square mile of hell -- disc 3. A three-front Pacific War : January-May 1944 ; The US leaps to the Marinas, June 1944 ; Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944 ; Bombing Japan : fire from the sky ; American submarines in the Pacific, 1944-1945 -- disc 4. MacArthur returns to the Philippines ; Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944 ; Admiral Halsey's Typhoons, 1944-1945 ; Battle for Iwo Jima, February-March 1945 ; Battle for Okinawa, April-June 1945 ; Kamikazes : Japan's special attack units ; Dropping the atomic bomb.
Summary:
Produced by The Great Courses in partnership with HISTORY, takes viewers into the sweeping story of the American fight against the Japanese. Taught by Professor Craig L. Symonds, a distinguished military historian at the US Naval War College, these 24 vivid lectures chronicle the global trajectory of the war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the birth of the atomic age.
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