Pacific War Trilogy Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942, Book 1, (Hardcover)

from waldhaus1

A friend told me about this book a couple of years ago. I'm sorry now it took me so long to get to it. The reader has the sense as Walter Cronkite used to say: you are there. The section on code breaking was particularly interesting to me. The reader can see see how near a thing the outcome of th...

from martinhughharvey

Soon after I started this book I realized it was going to be very special and it really was. For me it was familiar ground - the US Pacific campaign from Pearl until Midway - however, with excellent context setting stretching back into the early 20th century and even somewhat earlier. The culmina...

from jimmoz

Japan has resentment against the US for bigotry in CA, and regarding restricted navy following WWI. Also, western imperialism in Asia is a factor. Emperor fails to discipline ones who instigate incursion into Manchuria, and who assassinate prime minister. They see expansion of Germans, and see th...

from santhony

Pacific Crucible is an outstanding non-fiction look at the early years of the Pacific Theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor through the watershed Battle of Midway. In addition to those two seminal events, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Doolittle raid on Tokyo are also pres...

from larryerick

This is top-rate historical literature. It may not have quite the smooth narrative flow that Shelby Foote had for his legendary, The Civil War: A Narrative trilogy, but, if this is just the first of the author's World War II in the Pacific trilogy, then I'm all in. The book covers Pearl Harbor (i...