The End of an Empire; Battle Report [Volume IV]

xii, 532 pages. List of Casualties; Footnotes. 17 maps and 80 photographic plates. Appendix. Index. Some discoloration and soiling inside boards and flyleaves. Some cover wear and soiling. Prepared from Official Sources. Walter Karig (November 13, 1888 - September 30, 1956) was a prolific author, who served as a US naval captain. Karig wrote a number of works on Allied naval operations during World War II. He also wrote scripts for the television series Victory at Sea. Besides his works on naval history, Karig was a novelist, publishing under his own name, and a journalist. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and Free Polish Legion, completing his service in the latter as Captain of Infantry. He was appointed Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve in September 1942, and subsequently attained the tank of Captain on 15 January 1946. In October 1943 he assumed duty as Officer in Charge of the Navy Narrative History Project, and two years later became Assistant Director of Public Relations. A brilliant writer and editor, he applied his fine talents and knowledge of the techniques of publishing to the production of hundreds of books and more than one thousand major magazine articles concerning the Navy at war. Exercising his exceptional ability as a writer and historian, he rendered invaluable assistance in the organization and implementation of a television series, Victory at Sea, and became technical director and Naval Officer in Charge of the series which portrays in authentic motion pictures the Navy's role in WWII, based on Battle Report and other source material. Here is the story of the war as it looked and felt to the men who fought it on the sea, over the sea, under the sea and on the beaches. It is compiled from and as often as possible told in the words of the seamen and admirals, marine privates and officers, Regulars and Reserves, as related by them while the smoke of battle was still bitter in their nostrils, their bandages still wet, their elations at peaks and their woes at nadir. In this volume the topics cover include:: Rabaul, Green Island, Operation Cherry Tree, Truk, Biak, Marianas' Turkey Shoot, Admiral Halsey, Surigao Strait, and the retaking of the Philippines.…