Description
| Product ID: | 9781472810601 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rising Sun, Falling Skies |
| Subtitle: | The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II |
| Authors: | Author: Jeffrey Cox |
| Page Count: | 504 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Second World War, Naval forces and warfare, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Naval forces & warfare, Europe, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore. This book tells about the campaign carried by the Japanese forces in the Pacific region. Author Jeffrey Cox conducts a thorough and compelling investigation of the Java Sea Campaign, the first major sea battle of the Pacific War, which inflicted huge costs on the Allies and set the stage for Japan’s rout across the Pacific and Indian oceans.Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America’s entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East – directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught.It would be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific. |
| Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-11-20 |
