The Thousand-Mile War Author:Brian Garfield Here is the seldom explored - and never better told - story of Japanese invasion of Alaska and the Aleutians in June, 1942. Planned to draw American naval forces from the impending battle at Midway, the Japanese attack initiated the first American offensive of the war... the first mass airlift ever executed... the last daylight gun battle betwee... more »n surface ships in naval history... and the first American victory of the war.« less