Written by: Max Hastings
Submitted By: Robert Douglas
One of Britain's leading historians examines the Pacific Theatre of World War II, towards its end, in 1944-1945. This detailed narrative pulls us into a titanic struggle between the United States and the Japanese Empire. The campaigns were brutal, bloody, and tested those men who often fought beyond the limits of endurance in harsh environments. Ultimately: one side lost and paid a terrible price, the other emerged victorious yet exhausted. Thousands of servicemen made the supreme sacrifice in order to defeat the Axis forces, thus preventing a Japanese Empire from dominating the Far East and gaining mastery of the Pacific Ocean.
Max Hastings gives us a gripping account of famous commanders, their backgrounds, and how they made important decisions, tenuous relations between the countries involved played a chaotic factor in the grand scheme of things, and even personal experiences from various combatants who took part - from both sides. It is a history both colourful and tragic in its epic connotations for the world in which we live today.
