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The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this ""forgotten war"" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. T

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-445) and index

Buckner's War -- Eareckson's War -- Kinkaid's War

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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library

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digitized 2010

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