Product Description

Twelve world-renowned military historians provide a fresh re-evaluation of the events, troops, strategies, and tactics of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Despite unforgiving conditions and brutal jungle fighting that drained resources and morale, the American advance across the ocean towards the Japanese homelands drove the evolution of ever more innovative amphibious warfare, and increasingly desperate Japanese countermeasures. Bringing together American, Japanese, Australian and British perspectives, each chapter of "The Pacific War Companion" focuses on a different aspect of the conflict - from operational planning to the experiences of the men on the ground, and from the assault on Pearl Harbor to the atomic annihilation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168499 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

Customer Reviews

Superb, smooth and ejoyable to read
This book is highly recommened for anyone who is interested in the Pacific campaign during WWII. It is a smooth read (unlike many books by Osprey which, albeit sublime, may overwhelm the reader with too many facts, names and numbers in too few pages), and informative, nonetheless.

Perhaps they should have included more diagrams, tables and maps with facts and figures, as they usually do in their regular books, to help the reader ascertain quickly the situation, developemnt and outcome of the battles and campaigns. Someone wanting to know the names of the Japanese carriers sunk in Midway or their commanders' will have to read the article in order to know them. In the Campaign Midway 1942 Osprey book, however, the Order of Battle is present, making things easy.

Apart from that, I recommend it.