Kategoria BISAC: History >> Wars & Conflicts - World War II - Mediterranean Theater

The war's marquee matches get the marble memorials, but dig into the ditches and you'll find the real rot: Peleliu's coral hell where Marines chewed through Japanese caves for a airstrip that barely mattered, or the Admin Box in Burma where a ragtag British box held off a division with Bren guns and bully beef, turning imperial overreach into a jungle farce. These weren't set pieces-they were the sloppy seconds of strategy, where colonels scribbled orders on soggy maps while typhus feasted and supply ships ghosted the horizon. Hurtgen Forest swallowed divisions in its fir-choked jaws, a...