Description
| Product ID: | 9781472810618 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Pacific War |
| Subtitle: | From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa |
| Authors: | Author: Robert O'Neill |
| Page Count: | 328 |
| Subjects: | Australasian and Pacific history, Australasian & Pacific history, History, Second World War, Battles and campaigns, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Battles & campaigns, Pacific Ocean, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Reveals each of the major battles that America would fight in the ensuing struggle against Imperial Japan. In this title, each chapter discloses both the horrors of the battle and the Allies' grim yet heroic determination to wrest victory from what often seemed to be certain defeat, offering a guide to the long road to victory in the Pacific. Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II.On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into World War II. This definitive history explores each of the major battles that America would fight in the ensuing struggle against Imperial Japan, from the naval clashes at Midway and Coral Sea to the desperate, bloody fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.Each chapter reveals both the horrors of the battle and the Allies'' grim yet heroic determination to wrest victory from what often seemed to be certain defeat, offering a valuable guide to the long road to victory in the Pacific. |
| Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-07-20 |
