Pacific Campaign

Author : John Dower
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307816146

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War without Mercy by John Dower Pdf

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.”

Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671792176

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Pacific Campaign by Dan Van der Vat Pdf

Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Author : William Bruce Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134003822

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The Pacific Campaign in World War II by William Bruce Johnson Pdf

This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished documents this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific.

Author : William B. Hopkins
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616732400

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The Pacific War by William B. Hopkins Pdf

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.

Author : Hector C. Bywater
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
ISBN : 9781557095572

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The Great Pacific War by Hector C. Bywater Pdf

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.

Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0340496614

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The Pacific Campaign by Dan Van der Vat Pdf

Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015010380668

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The Campaigns of the Pacific War by United States Strategic Bombing Survey Pdf

Author : John Costello
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0688016200

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The Pacific War by John Costello Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526796134

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Japan's Pacific War by Peter Williams Pdf

‘I had no qualms fighting the Australians, just as I have killed without remorse any of the Emperor’s enemies: the British, the Americans and the Dutch’, so admits Takahiro Sato in this ground-breaking oral history of Japan’s Pacific War. Thanks to years of research and over 100 interviews with veterans, the Author has compiled a fascinating collection of personal accounts by former Japanese soldiers, sailors and airmen. Their candid views are often provocative and shocking. There are admissions of brutality, the killing of prisoners and cannibalism. Stark descriptions of appalling conditions and bitter fighting blend with descriptions of family life. Their views on the prowess of the enemy differ with some like air ace Kazuo Tsunoda who believed the Australians ‘worthy’. Some remain unrepentant while others such as Hideo Abe are ashamed of his part in Japan’s war of aggression. The result is a revealing insight into the minds of a ruthless and formidable enemy which provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the Second World War.

Author : Clyde Holloway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 0975906305

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Pacific War Marine by Clyde Holloway Pdf

Stanley P. Holloway joined the Marines at the start of World War II and spent nearly four years fighting in the Pacific. "Pacific War Marine" recounts his experiences during that time. It also tells the story of meeting his sweetheart, Marg, in New Zealand and includes their letters.

Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1841581232

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The Pacific Campaign by Dan Van der Vat Pdf

The author explores the naval conflict in the Pacific from Pearl harbour to Leyte Gulf, from Midway to Okinawa. He tells the story of the fatal misunderstanding between America and Japan, and describes the cabinet meetings and military strategy of the complex campaign.

Author : Gerald A. Meehi,Rex Alan Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780789213334

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Pacific Legacy by Gerald A. Meehi,Rex Alan Smith Pdf

The classic photo book about the battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater then and now—updated with new information about the preservation and accessibility of these historic sites. Pacific Legacy offers an unprecedented record of the relics of World War II that have survived on the islands of the Pacific: American landing craft rusting on the reefs where they were stopped by enemy fire; shell-pocked Japanese fortifications; fallen aircraft overgrown by jungle; packed-coral landing strips still as good as new. These evocative color images are paired with archival photographs that show the same tropical battlegrounds as they appeared in wartime. The text covers the entire war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to Japan’s surrender in Tokyo Bay. The principal battles are recounted hour-by-hour, drawing heavily on firsthand accounts. This vivid narrative helps the reader visualize what it was really like to be at war in the Pacific, doggedly island-hopping to victory.

Author : James B Wood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461638087

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Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War by James B Wood Pdf

In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan—to secure the resources Japan needed and establish a viable defensible perimeter for the Empire—that the Allies were able to regain the initiative and lock Japanese forces into a war of attrition they were not prepared to fight. The book persuasively shows how the Japanese army and navy had both the opportunity and the capability to have fought a different and more successful war in the Pacific that could have influenced the course and outcome of World War II. It is therefore a study both of Japanese defeat and of what was needed to achieve a potential Japanese victory, or at the very least, to avoid total ruin. Wood's argument does not depend on signal individual historical events or dramatic accidents. Instead it examines how familiar events could have b

Author : Donald M. Goldstein
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974622

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The Pacific War Papers by Donald M. Goldstein Pdf

The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the eminent scholar of Pearl Harbor, who obtained them from Japanese naval leaders while working for the Military History Section of the American forces that occupied Japan. Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon have assembled this collection so that these important documents are not lost to history. The editors also provide expert commentary to introduce and explain the importance of the materials. This book forms the companion volume to The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans (Brassey's, Inc., 1993), which Goldstein and Dillon also edited. Most of the documents published here are not available anywhere else, with many translated for the first time. This edited collection covers three main topics: the Japanese navy before World War II, prewar diplomacy and politics, and Japanese naval operations and policy during the war. The documents include diary extracts and candid, short monographs written by high-ranking Japanese officers immediately after the war. They shed new light on the vast naval buildup before the war, the development of the navy's operational concepts for war with the United States, the organization and tactics of aircraft carrier forces, and the failure of Japanese submarine operations. No World War II library will be complete without this important volume.

Author : Daniel Marston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849087261

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The Pacific War by Daniel Marston Pdf

The Pacific War Companion' brings together the perspectives and insights of world-reno wned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was marked by amazing tactical innovations, such as those in amphibious warfare, and horrific battles that raged in the unforgiving climate of the island jungles. Each chapter in this book focuses on a different aspect of this conflict, from the planning of operations to the experiences of the men who were there.