The Pacific War: 1941-1945Harper Collins, 1982/12/01 - 800 ページ 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. |
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A Sinister Twilight | 90 |
National HaraKiri | 112 |
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy | 129 |
Direct Shocks | 149 |
Trying to Run Two Wars at Once | 398 |
Keep Em Dying | 407 |
Crippling Blows | 419 |
Cracking the Japanese Shell | 428 |
Common Fronts | 440 |
The Common Cause | 459 |
Decisive Battles | 472 |
Moral Obligations | 487 |
The Somber Panorama | 160 |
Standing on the Defensive | 173 |
The Cataract of Disaster | 193 |
Victory Disease | 214 |
Taking a Beating | 233 |
The Hidden Victory | 245 |
Calculated Risks | 268 |
Give Em the Works | 283 |
We Must Attack Attack Attack | 310 |
Everybody Hopes that We Can Hold On | 338 |
The Fork in the Road to Victory | 360 |
The End of the Beginning | 374 |
Combined Deadlock | 384 |
The Flowers of Death | 499 |
A Determined Fighting Spirit | 522 |
Uncommon Valor | 539 |
Floating Chrysanthemums | 554 |
The Awful Way | 568 |
The Miracle of Deliverance | 579 |
This Is the Payoff | 594 |
An AfterAction Report | 606 |
Pearl HarborWarning or Decision? | 617 |
Appendix A | 659 |
Appendix B | 675 |
Notes | 677 |
Bibliography | 710 |