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Stepping stones to nowhere : the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American military strategy, 1867-1945 / Galen Roger Perras.
- Title
- Stepping stones to nowhere : the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American military strategy, 1867-1945 / Galen Roger Perras.
- Author
- Perras, Galen Roger, 1961-
- Publication
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 274 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2003.
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Waterloo, 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-266) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1591148367
- LCCN
- ^^2002114070
- OCLC
- 53015264
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library