Mark Lardas: Rabaul 1943-44 [2018] paperback ZBIOG compelling and inevitably bleak account

compelling and inevitably bleak account of the American and British campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Mark Lardas: Rabaul 1943-44 [2018] paperback ZBIOG compelling and inevitably bleak accountIn 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000 strong garrison out. Instead the US began an innovative, hard fought two year air campaign to draw its teeth, and allow them to bypass the island completely. The struggle decided more than the fate of Rabaul. If successful, the Allies would demonstrate a new form of warfare,