The Pacific War companion : from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima /

MARSTON Daniel

The Pacific War companion : from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima / edited by Daniel Marston. - Oxford, UK: Osprey, 2005 - 272 p.

Twelve internationally reknowned military historians have contributed to this excellent overview of the second world war in the Pacific. Follows the chronology of the war from its precursors in Western and Russian expansion during the nineteenth century that in turn enabled the rise of Japan's military ambitions to it's conclusion in the alternatives of nuclear bombs or the invasion of Japan. Extensively Illustrated with photographs and maps this is another of the excellent Osprey publications on the Second World War.

1841768820 (hbk) : 20.00 GBP


SECOND WORLD WAR--PACIFIC THEATRE