"Strong Men Armed relates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction - and did. (All but three of the Marines' victories required the complete annihilation of the Japanese defending force.) As sco…
Provides a clear focus on the crucial part played by the Loyalists in the American Revolution, and analyzes shifts in policy as the British alternately courted and ignored them during the successive phases and campaigns of the war