War in the Pacific
Title | War in the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Gailey |
Publisher | Presidio Press |
Total Pages | 560 |
Release | 2011-08-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307802043 |
Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief combatants' military doctrine, training, war plans, and equipment. The book then chronicles all significant actions - from the early Allied defeats in the Philippines, the East Indies, and New Guinea; through the gradual improvement of the Allied position in the Central and Southwest Pacific regions; to the final agonies of the Japanese people, whose leaders refused to admit defeat until the very end. Gailey gives detailed treatment to much that has been neglected or given only cursory mention in previous surveys. The reader thus gains an unparalleled overview of operations, as well as many fresh insights into the behind-the-scenes bickering between the Allies and the interservice squabbles that dogged MacArthur and Nimitz throughout the war. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
The Early Air War in the Pacific
Title | The Early Air War in the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph F. Wetterhahn |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2019-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147666997X |
During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II. Details are included from two expeditions conducted by the author that reveal the location of an American pilot missing in the Philippines since 1942 and clear up a controversial account involving famed Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and U.S. Navy pilot James "Pug" Southerland.
War without Mercy
Title | War without Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | John Dower |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2012-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307816141 |
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
War Under the Pacific
Title | War Under the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Wheeler |
Publisher | Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Submarines (Ships) |
ISBN | 9780783557083 |
Text and illustrations describe submarine warfare in the Pacific during World War II.
The Pacific War
Title | The Pacific War PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Hopkins |
Publisher | Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2010-11-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1616732407 |
This “important comprehensive study” of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory (Roanoke Times). Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological narratives. In The Pacific War, William B. Hopkins, a Marine Corps veteran of the Pacific war and respected military history author, opens the story of the Pacific campaign to a broader and deeper view. Hopkins investigates the strategies, politics, and personalities that shaped the fighting. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land, sea, and air offers an insightful perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific, and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island, Hopkins’ account offers a fresh way of understanding the hows—and more significantly, the whys—of the Pacific War.
The Great Pacific War
Title | The Great Pacific War PDF eBook |
Author | Hector C. Bywater |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2002-04 |
Genre | Imaginary wars and battles |
ISBN | 1557095574 |
This gripping blow-by-blow account of a war between the United States and Japan, originally published in 1925, predicted actual events. Writing 16 years before the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Bywater, the world's leading naval authority in the period between the two world wars, prophesied a Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. in the Pacific, while simultaneously invading the Phillippines and Guam.
Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II
Title | Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Earl R. Hinz |
Publisher | Bess Press |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781573060080 |
Highlights decisive WWII military operations in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, and their effects on the islands. Illustrations, maps, and index.