The Pacific War Companion
The Pacific War Companion
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
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About this book
Twelve world-renowned military historians provide a re-evaluation of the events, troops, strategies, and tactics of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Despite unforgiving conditions and brutal jungle fighting that drained resources and morale, the American advance across the ocean towards the Japanese homelands drove the evolution of ever more innovative amphibious warfare, and increasingly desperate Japanese countermeasures. Bringing together American, Japanese, Australian and British perspectives, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the conflict - from operational planning to the experiences of the men on the ground, and from the assault on Pearl Harbor to the atomic annihilation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Contents
- Japan’s road to empire and war
- Pearl Harbor: Japanese planning and command structure
- The Japanese invasions
- Allied strategy and command in the Pacific 1941–42
- The battle of the Coral Sea and Midway
- The Burma Campaign
- The South and Southwest Pacific campaigns 1942–45
- The ANZAC Contribution
- Nimitz and the Central Pacific War
- After Midway: Japanese naval strategy 1942–45
- Amphibious warfare in the Pacific
- The battle for Okinawa April 1–June 21, 1945
- Ending the Pacific War: “No alternative to annihilation”
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
Paperback; March 2007; 264 pages; ISBN: 9781846032127