Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) write by Ian W. Toll. This book was released on 2011-11-14. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa write by Bruce Bliven (Jr.). This book was released on 1960. From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This account begins with Pearl Harbor and ends with V-J day.
Pacific Campaign
Pacific Campaign - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pacific Campaign write by Dan Van der Vat. This book was released on 1992-12. Pacific Campaign available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
The Pacific War
The Pacific War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pacific War write by John Costello. This book was released on 1982-12-01. The Pacific War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Aleutians been so brilliantly woven together to provide a clear account of one of the most massive movements of men and arms in history. The complex social, political, and economic causes that underlay the war are here carefully analyzed, impelling the reader to see it as the inevitable conclusion to a series of historical events. And the bloody fighting that indelibly recorded names like Midway and Iwo Jima in the annals of human conflict is described in detail, through its ominous conclusion in the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hirohito's War
Hirohito's War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hirohito's War write by Francis Pike. This book was released on 2016-09-08. Hirohito's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war; Emperor Hirohito's war guilt; the inevitability of US Victory; the abilities of General MacArthur and Admiral Yamamoto; the role of China, Great Britain and Australia; military and naval technology; and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources, including more details on logistics, economics, POWs, submarines and kamikaze, as well as a 1930-1945 timeline and over 200 maps.
