World War II
Subtitle: The Pacific
By: David Horner
Contributors: O'Neill, Robert John
Series: World War II: Essential histories
Publisher: Rosen Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781435891333
Other titles: World War Two; Second World War.
Notes: "Robert O'Neill, series editor."

Originally published as v. 1 in The Second World War. Oxford : Osprey, 2002-2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Background to war : the expansion of Imperial Japan, 1891-1941; title: Warring sides : powerful Japan faced certain defeat; title: Outbreak : the slide toward inevitable war; title: The fighting : the course of the Pacific war; title: Portrait of a soldier : Thomas Currie Derrick, an Australian soldier; title: The world around war : a clash of cultures and races; title: Portrait of a civilian : Gwen Harold Terasaki, an American in Japan; title: How the war ended : not necessarily to Japan's advantage; title: Conclusion and consequences : how the war transformed the Asia- Pacific area.