Warning of War

Author:   James Brady ,  Dick Hill
Publisher:   Brilliance Corporation
ISBN:  

9781593351878


Publication Date:   10 June 2004
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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Late November of 1941. Half the world is at war, and with the other half about to join in, a thousand U.S. Marines stand sentinel over the last days of an uneasy truce between ourselves and the Imperial Japanese Army in chaotic North China. By November 27, FDR is convinced Japan is about to launch a military action. Washington doesn't know where, and isn't sure precisely when. But the Cabinet is sufficiently alarmed that War Secretary Henry Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox are authorized to send an immediate and coded warning of war to American bases and units in harm's way. In Shanghai two cruise ships are chartered and eight hundred armed American Marines of the 4th Regiment (serving in China since the Boxer Rebellion) are marched through the great port city with enormous pomp and circumstance, about to embark for Manila. Another two hundred Marines, unable to reach Shanghai, and serving in small garrisons and posts from Peking to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, are caught short by this warning of war. This is their story. Of how a detachment of American Marines marooned in North China as war erupts set out on an epic march through hostile territory in an attempt to fight their way out of China and, somehow, rejoin their Corps for the war against Japan. James Brady dazzles us once again with a stunning and unflinching look at America at war. Warning of War is a moving tribute to sheer courage, determination, and Marine Corps discipline, and is a wonderful celebration of America in one of its darkest but finest hours.

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Author:   James Brady ,  Dick Hill
Publisher:   Brilliance Corporation
Imprint:   Brilliance Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.091kg
ISBN:  

9781593351878


ISBN 10:   1593351879
Publication Date:   10 June 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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