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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Galen Roger Perras |
| ISBN: | 1591148367 9781591148364 |
| OCLC Number: | 53015264 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2003. Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Waterloo, 1995. |
| Description: | xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | One of our great strategic points : Alaskan defence, 1867-1934 -- He who holds Alaska will hold the world : Alaskan security, 1934-41 -- Entirely open to attack : Aleutian defence, December 1941 to June 1942 -- All commanders on minor fronts regard their own actions as highly important : July 1942 to January 1943 -- Total destruction is the only answer : westward to Attu -- A strong Alaska means a foot-loose fleet : Kiska's capture -- We have opened the door to Tokyo : plans to take the Kurile Ilsands, 1943-5 -- Stepping stones to nowhere. |
| Responsibility: | Galen Roger Perras. |
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