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Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians (Classic Reprint Series) Paperback – February 1, 1995

by Brian Garfield (Author)

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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.
The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States.
Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations.

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Students of World War II history will delight to find an exclusive focus on how the battles were fought in Alaska and the Aleutians: something commonly overlooked in favor of the more graphic and active European and Pacific arenas. This first appeared in 1969: it remains one of the best accounts of the war, reading like fiction and including fine documentary records in this reprint. -- Midwest Book Review

Series: Classic Reprint Series (Book 4)
Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: University of Alaska Press; 1st edition (February 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0912006838
ISBN-13: 978-0912006833
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 104 customer reviews
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- #645 in Books > History > Military > World War II
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IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN WWII HISTORY

Bycatladyon May 28, 2014

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this book should be required reading for anyone studying world war II history. this is the mostly overlooked part of the war ... the part that took place in the aleutian islands in alaska on american soil. everyone always focuses on the european and south pacific theaters of the war, but what happened in alaska was also of utmost importance to america.

this book is fascinating and reads like any suspense novel, except that it's all true. i found this book years ago and only picked it up because my dad spent the war in the aleutians, and i wanted to know more about what happened there. much later i learned my dad had received the bronze star. i'm reading the book again...not only because of my family history...but because it is an important book that is beautifully written. it's a classic.

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Have you ever heard of the northern north Amercian front ...

ByAmazon Customeron January 28, 2016

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Have you ever heard of the northern north Amercian front in WW II? Well I hadn't until I visited the Alaskan War Memorial this summer. Now having read this summary, I am in awe as to how much action took place, the significance of it, the possible exponential expansion of it and how close each side was to using this front to gain control over territory of the other. You also get the plus of the author's reviewing the work years after original writing as new documents have been released and comments for participants have been received. This book is a must to understanding the compete meaning of "World" in World War II.

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The Aleutian Front-a Long, Hard, Victorious, and Unsung Campaign

ByCarl Robinsonon March 29, 2013

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A cousin of mine-my grandmother always told me-was killed in Alaska fighting the Japanese. Yes, Alaska was invaded by the formidable foe in WWII. Large Japanese garrisons were occupied Attu and Kiska Island and the Northern Pacific was under air raid thread from the Japanese Air Force.

Brian Garfield relates the tale of how the Americans fought back and re-won the Aleutians. It is a tale of cold weather, fog, logistical excellence, naval battles, and air raids with obsolete or second hand aircraft. The scope of the campaign involves thousands of troops and a thousand miles of front over barren wilderness.

This is the definitive work on the Aleutians Campaign and a must read for anyone interested in the Pacific War.

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Craig Johnston---private pilot

ByCraig D. Johnstonon June 22, 2012

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This book is absolutely chilling. Those who flew the WW II bombing missions in Alaska's Aleutian Islands chronicled in this book were brave beyond belief.

The more you know about flying, the scarier the missions they flew are. They had no radar, no GPS, and flew just above the wavetops with little or no visibility horizontally. I'm just a private pilot who also has navigated Southeast Alaska on a fishing boat, and I can't believe these aircrews did what they did. I handed the book to my father, a World War II bomber navigator in the Pacific Theater, and he was even more aghast. "I'm sure glad we weren't there" was his main feeling after reading the book.

Dead reckoning is a technically accurate description of the navigation method used to fly these missions. Flying low enough that they could see the ocean below, they read the wavetops, in ferocity and direction, to judge the wind's effect on their course. Pilots in planes following a lead aircraft would also read the propwash on the waves from the plane in front of them, because they could not see the other bomber through the fog. They didn't want to fly into his tail, but neither did they want to lose track of the leader. Either action could be fatal. Many of these aircrews never returned to their base.

This is a hard book to put down.

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This is a must read for an excellent history of WWII in Alaska.

ByEarl Barnetton November 19, 2015

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I have read this book at least three times in the last 25 years. I ministered in Unalaska back in the late
1960's. When I was there, it was only about 20 years removed from the actual war. With the aid of a Honda 90 bike, my wife a I spent many hours exploring the remaining buildings. Many of the barracks still had girls pictures on the walls. We found what was evidently an under ground hospital. We now live in King Cove, near Cold Bay, that was only mentioned once. I read with keen interest the battle of Attu. A Private Frank Barnett was the only foot soldier mentioned. You should read this book to find out why. I am sure he was no relation to me. Army records show he was from Iowa and Chinese descend.

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Good read.

Bymike mcgreevyon January 15, 2014

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I wanted to read this book after I finished Brian Payton's new novel called "The Wind is not a River" (which is based on the actual wartime events that I read about in this book).

This book was both interesting and heartfelt in its content - it provided a window into the prevailing posture of wartime politics and non-disclosure that was the order of the day back then (and today it seems!) regarding the Aleutian campaign of WWII.

First class in many respects.

One thing kept coming up throughout the book though...

There is a glaring typo on the spelling of General Simon Buckner...or, Beukner as it appeared as published on the Kindle version quite a number of times.

Is there a spell-checker anywhere in the house?

This aside, I really enjoyed learning about this great piece of our heritage from this book!

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Wonderful account of the Aleutian comapaign

ByFeilongshion March 19, 2014

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I could actually feel the cold and hardship the soldiers faced during the Aleutian campaign. This is an excellent account of the battle that was forgotten by most historians. The author was nice to include a small mention of the airfield in McGrath. I used to live there and if you walk through the alders you can still see the support posts for the barracks. Of course this was not a book about the lend-lease program. It was an excellent account of the hardships of the soldier and the life of the officers, many of whom had their heads up their butts. The author makes a slight mention of the evacuation and internment of the Aleuts.

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Great book and very well written

ByRichard milleron March 13, 2017

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Great book and very well written. I loved it as well as my friends when I passed it on...... Thanks

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