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Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867–1945. By Galen Roger Perras. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-7748-0989-2. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0-7748-0990-6.)
Galen Roger Perras, an archivist with the National Archives of Canada, has written an absorbing history of the role of the Aleutians and Alaska in United States strategy during World War II. An outgrowth of his doctoral dissertation, Perras's Stepping Stones to Nowhere is a thoroughly researched study of the intricate wartime dance over the strategic role of the North Pacific among the on-scene commanders, U.S. Army and Navy strategic planners, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and their Canadian counterparts. . . .
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