272 pages : 27 cm

Offers an introduction to the Pacific War, including such topics as the opening amphibious operations and Japanese naval strategy after Midway

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-263) and index

Storm over the Pacific: Japan's road to empire and war / Professor Dennis Showalter -- Pearl Harbor: Japanese planning and command structure / Dr. Ken Kotani -- Rising sun strikes: Japanese invasions / Professor Tomoyuki Ishizu and Professor Raymond Callahan -- Coping with disaster: Allied strategy and command in the Pacific, 1941-42 / Professor Raymond Callahan -- Height of folly: Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway / Professor Robert Love -- Learning from defeat: Burma campaign / Dr. Daniel Marston -- General MacArthur's war: South and Southwest Pacific campaigns, 1942-45 / Professor David Horner -- ANZAC contribution: Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific war / Professor David Horner -- Shortest road to Tokyo: Nimitz and the Central Pacific war / Professor Theodore Gatchel -- After Midway: Japanese naval strategy, 1942-45 / Professor H.P. Willmott -- Across the reef: Amphibious warfare in the Pacific / Colonel Joseph H. Alexander -- Island experience: Battle for Okinawa: April 1-June 21, 1945 / Major Bruce Gudmundsson -- Ending the Pacific war: No alternative to annihilation / Richard B. Frank

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