Title: Touched with fire : the land warfare in the South Pacific /
Authors: Bergerud, Eric M.
Publisher: Viking,
Year: 1996
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Oceania.; Oceania History, Military.
Abstract: A history of the land battles in the Pacific with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces.
Contents: Introduction: The Strategic Magnet: A Brief Narrative of the War in the South Pacific -- pt. I. The Battlefield and the Armies. Ch. 1. The War Against the Land. Ch. 2. The Armies -- pt. II. Fighting Mean: Combat in the South Pacific. Ch. 3. Weapons for a Harsh War. Ch. 4. The Squad War. Ch. 5. Day by Day: Morale in the South Pacific. Ch. 6. The War Leaves the South Pacific. Epilogue: War, Peacetime, and Memories of an Old Battle.