Eagle against the sun
Subtitle: the American war with Japan
By: Ronald H. Spector
Series: Cassell military paperbacks
Publisher: Cassell & Co.; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
ISBN-13: 9780304359790; 9780304353774
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Campaigns; Military campaigns
Description: Beginning with Pearl Harbor in 1941 and concluding with Japan's surrender in August 1945, this is a detailed and authoritative narrative history of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. States of Mind: American; title: 2. States of Mind: Japanese; title: 3. Orange; title: 4. Some Last Minute Changes; title: 5. The Issue Is in Doubt; title: 6. The Short, Unhappy Life of ABDACOM; title: 7. "The Vital Flank"; title: 8. From Midway to Massacre Valley; title: 9. Routes to Rabaul; title: 10. Jungle Victories; title: 11. CARTWHEEL; title: 12. The Dodging Tide; title: 13. "They Are Waiting for Me There"; title: 14. To the Marianas; title: 15. "A Hell of a Beating"; title: 16. The Road to Myitkyina; title: 17. Ichigo; title: 18. Strangers in Strange Lands; title: 19. Where Is Task Force 34?; title: 20. Behind the Lines; title: 21. The War of Attrition; title: 22. From Leyte to Luzon; title: 23. "I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds."