Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 1992-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0671792172
Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
Author : David Wragg
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1844689719
This vividly detailed WWII history chronicles the bitter conflict at sea between Allied and Japanese naval forces. The Pacific War was primarily fought at sea. Naval power allowed the Japanese to mount their attack on Pearl Harbor and then advance westwards and southwards. It also enabled the Allies to strike back and even take the war to Japan itself. The tide turned very quickly, with the US victory at Midway in June of 1942 ending any Japanese hope of domination. The book begins with the decisions that led Japan into war, and the difficult situation faced by the Royal Navy elsewhere. It then describes how, within a couple of years, the Royal Navy was able to send the strongest and most balanced fleet in its history to severely disrupt Japanese operations. Historian David Wragg also covers how the Royal Australian Navy developed into a viable naval force ready to become a major fleet in the immediate postwar years. The progress of the war is supported by eyewitness accounts from those involved in the fighting at sea.
Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780340496619
Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
Author : John Costello
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0688016200
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 : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781841581231
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 : Milan N. Vego
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935352440
"A detailed study of three major naval operations of World War II. These three, initiated by imperial Japan, took place in the Pacific and resulted in the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway/Aleutians, and the Philippine Sea. All the cases provide ample background on the geographic and strategic context of the operations, as well as an account of the unfolding of the action utilizing much primary source material in, especially, American and Japanese archives"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0743252225
Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos.
Author : Paul Dull
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612512907
For almost 20 years, more than 200 reels of microfilmed Japanese naval records remained in the custody of the U.S. Naval History Division, virtually untouched. This unique book draws on those sources and others to tell the story of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of the Japanese. Former Marine Corps officer and Asian scholar Paul Dull focuses on the major surface engagements of the war—Coral Sea, Midway, the crucial Solomons campaign, and the last-ditch battles in the Marianas and Philippines. Also included are detailed track charts and a selection of Japanese photographs of major vessels and actions.
Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1991
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 1946
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
