Triumph in the Pacific; The Navy’s Struggle Against Japan
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Publisher Description
Here in a single volume is one of the most authoritative, thoroughly documented accounts of the U.S. Navy’s war against Japan.
This is the story of the achievements, defeats, and victories of both the American and the Japanese navies as they met and battled in the greatest naval war of all time. This dramatic narrative brings to life both the glorious and the infamous—the decisive encounters at Midway...Guadalcanal...the Philippine Sea...Leyte Gulf...Iwo Jima...Okinawa...and the other points in the Pacific where history was made from 1941 to 1945.
The information for TRIUMPH IN THE PACIFIC was gathered by historians at the Naval Academy at Annapolis under the direction of E. B. Potter, the Academy’s Chairman of Naval History, and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz who, as Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, was a principal figure in the conflict. The book is marked by authenticity, conciseness, objectivity, and the accuracy of years of painstaking research and preparation.
Customer Reviews
I offer my humblest gratitude
My father was on the USS Fletcher in WWII. He told stories of the war, which I always found awe inspiring. Not until I read this book did I have the faintest idea of the magnitude of sacrifice made by our sailors, marines, and troops.
This I’m sure is a very condensed version, and required quite a bit of looking up definitions by this non military reader, and it was worth every minute spent.
To say thank you is woefully insufficient. We must put our thanks into action to preserve that which required so great a sacrifice.