Clayton Chun: Leyte 1944 [2015] paperback JOURN real friendships grow

real friendships grow

militarism and women's attitudes towards war

following on from the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls

edited with diligence by Christopher Ricks

Lives will collide

Clayton Chun: Leyte 1944 [2015] paperback JOURN real friendships growThe loss of the Philippines in 1942 was the worst defeat in American military history. General Douglas MacArthur, the 'Lion of Luzon', was evacuated by order of the President just before the fall, but he vowed to return, and in August 1944 he kept his word when he led what, at the time, was the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific War on the island of Leyte. This is the full story of that fateful battle, one of the most ferocious campaigns of