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...Theodore Ropp The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation . By Field James A. Jr. Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. xiv , 162 . $2.50 . The Battle for Leyte Gulf . By Vann Woodward C. . New York : The Macmillan Co. , 1947 . Pp. xii , 245 . $4.00...

...Arturo Leyte 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Virginia C. Tuma, based on the original Spanish and on an earlier English version provided by Karmele Troyas, who also reviewed the proofs. Arturo Leyte A Note on The Nomos of the Earth...

.... The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation. By James A. Field, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. Pp. xiv, 162. $2.50. The Battle for Leyte Gulf. By C. Vann Woodward. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1947. Pp. xii, 245. $4.00. Until the volume covering the Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Navy s...

... of the Third Fleet is to destroy the enemy aircraft in the central and northern Philippines and to neutralize the airfields. On October 20, General MacArthur, supported by units of the Seventh Fleet, will land on Leyte Island in the Philippines. Our task force will prevent enemy air and naval interference...

... American Central and Southwest Pacific offensives just before they came together at Leyte. Part I discusses American and Japanese strategy. Part II is the story of General MacArthur s conquest of New Guinea. Part III (considerably more than half the book) analyzes the Marianas campaign and the great naval...

... continuous process and that it is impossible to isolate the Six Great Decisions or the Great Mistakes of the War. There are twenty-two separate chapters in these few pages; at least one of these, the four pages on the Battle for Leyte Gulf, is perilously close to being a primarily tactical study. Two...

... in the invasion of France, Leyte, the liberation of the Philippines, and the liquidation of the Japanese Empire. Perhaps these final volumes may contain their author s general conclusions. What role did sea power play in World War II? This volume is less dramatic than some of its predecessors. The submarine war...

.... xxxii, 399. $6.00. Admiral Morison s excellent history is now more than two-thirds completed. The remaining four volumes will deal with the Navy s part in the invasion of France, Leyte, the liberation of the Philippines, and the liquidation of the Japanese Empire. Perhaps these final volumes may contain...

... ‘‘Boom’’ in the Neoliberal Marketplace (2001), and Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama Lima’s ‘‘American Expression’’ (1996). arturo leyte teaches philosophy at Vigo University in Spain. He has been a collaborative researcher at the Bayern Academy of Sciences in Munich since...

... of the most diffi­ cult of the series to organize, since it deals with the mutually supporting American Central and Southwest Pacific offensives just before they came together at Leyte. Part I discusses American and Japanese strategy. Part II is the story of General MacArthur s conquest of New Guinea. Part...

... of these, the four pages on the Battle for Leyte Gulf, is perilously close to being a primarily tactical study. Two minor points may be mentioned. One is Admiral Morison s belief that many of the publicized Anglo-American differences were shadow-boxing. The British Chiefs of Staff were using Copyright © 1959...

... at Guiuan in Samar and at Tawi Tawi south of Jolo and air force bases on Mactan island near Cebu, on Leyte in the Visayas, on Palawan northwest of Mindanao, and in a number of other places. On March 21, 1947, another Filipino-American agreement en­ titled Military Assistance to the Philippines provided...

... in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, June 1968. As a member of the Peace Corps, he taught American history at St. Peter s College in Ormac City, Leyte, the Phillipines. A teaching fellow in the Yale Graduate School, he has an article in a current number of the Journal of American History. Ulrich Bonnell...