Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the AleutiansThe Thousand Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this forgotten war in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so