War in the Pacific - Tapa dura

War in the Pacific is the first full, comprehensively illustrated treatment ofthe struggle for power in the Pacific theater between 1941 and 1945. It presents that struggle as the complex saga of strategies that it was: Japan attempting to conquer East Asia before attacking the Soviet Union, the war between the Nationalist, Communist and Japanese puppet regimes in China, the demise of the European colonial system at the hands of the Japanese, and the American sea-air-land juggernaut which brought defeat to Japan.For the first time the roles of the China-Burma-India theater and the Alliedsubmarine campaign of attrition areintegrated with the Japanese andAmerican island campaigns to explain thecourse of the war. Finally, the naval battlesof the largest sea and amphibious war inhistory are discussed and illustrated ingraphic detail - Pearl Harbor, the DutchEast Indies, Midway, Guadalcanal, Rabaul, Truk, New Guinea, the Marianas and the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima andOkinawa.The primary causes of Japan's defeat maywell be a revelation to the reader, as will the impact of Japan's wartime activities onthe postwar world.