Clayton Chun
Autor/a de The Doolittle raid 1942 : America's first strike at Japan
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Clayton Chun [credit: U.S. Army War College]
Obres de Clayton Chun
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Chun, Clayton K. S.
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Educació
- United States Air Force Academy
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Southern California
RAND Graduate School - Professions
- military historian
economist - Organitzacions
- United States Army War College
United States Air Force Academy
United States Air Force
Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 18
- Membres
- 438
- Popularitat
- #55,890
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 7
- ISBN
- 41
- Llengües
- 1
What is striking to me, and this work is far from the first time that I've studied this topic, is that for all the epic and horrifying events that occurred during this campaign, is how little has really been written about it. To a large degree Chun depends on the old U.S. Army "Green Books" in relating this story; I'd been hoping that there was some more contemporary operational sources he could refer to. It's as though Douglas MacArthur's insistence on making this campaign about "him" sucked all the energy out of the room, not helped by Walter Krueger (the main operational architect of this campaign), being uninterested in leaving a memoir. Still, if you want to get the distilled content of the official history, this is a useful work. If there is a particular plus, the contributions of the large Filipino resistance force are integrated into this study.… (més)