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The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire island by island.
This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War - the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944 - when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide", concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal.
Often overlooked, these are the years and fights that decided the Pacific War. Ian W. Toll's battle scenes - in the air, at sea, and in the jungles - are simply riveting. He also takes the listener into the wartime councils in Washington and Tokyo, where politics and strategy often collided, and into the struggle to mobilize wartime production, which was the secret of Allied victory. Brilliantly researched, the narrative is propelled and colored by firsthand accounts - letters, diaries, debriefings, and memoirs - that are the raw material of the telling details, shrewd judgment, and penetrating insight of this magisterial history.
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With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal. Neptune’s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands.
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The Cactus Air Force
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New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, popular host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, provided an insightful look at Operation Iraqi Freedom in the first hard-hitting book based on his show. Now in this second book, North shares the accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II.
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Horrible writing
- By DearMrDear on 06-02-18
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- By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
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On 27 October 1942, four "Long Lance" torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea 100 miles northeast of the island of Guadalcanal and just north of the Santa Cruz Islands, taking with her 140 of her sailors. With the loss of Hornet, the United States Navy now had one aircraft carrier left in the South Pacific.
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Good for what it is, but not what it claims to be
- By David Maher on 12-18-17
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When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the most battle-hardened US naval squadron of the war. But it was not the squadron of ships that had accumulated such an inspiring résumé; it was the people serving aboard them. Through diaries, personal interviews with survivors, and letters written to and by the crews during the war, preeminent historian of the Pacific theater John Wukovits brings to life the human story of the squadron and its men.
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Captivating
- By Jean on 09-23-17
By: John Wukovits
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One American soldier called it "a green hell on Earth". Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps - New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the empire's strategy to knock Australia out of the war.
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Worth your time
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During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
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- By Barry Block on 05-06-24
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As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine, and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf - the greatest naval battle in history.
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Startling revelations to a 72 year battle!
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At Close Quarters
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Small though they were, PT boats played a key role in World War II, carrying out an astonishing variety of missions where fast, versatile, and strongly armed vessels were needed. Called "weapons of opportunity", they met the enemy at closer quarters and with greater frequency than any other type of surface craft. Among the most famous PT commanders was John F. Kennedy, whose courageous actions in the Pacific are now well known to the American public.
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Dry as the dessert in July!
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Utmost Savagery
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On November 20, 1943, in the first trial by fire of America’s fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, 5,000 men stormed the beaches of Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the 300-acre Pentagon parking lots. Before the first day ended, one-third of the marines who had crossed Tarawa’s deadly reef under murderous fire were killed, wounded, or missing. In three days of fighting, four Americans would win the Medal of Honor and six thousand combatants would die.
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The Definitive Battle History of Tarawa
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The Aleutian Islands Campaign
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Fought over bitterly cold flecks of rock and tundra scattered across the remote waters marking the boundary between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands campaign represented one of the strangest encounters of World War II. Curving southwestward from the southwest coast of Alaska like the tail of a stingray, the rugged, volcanic Aleutians belong to both the United States and Russia.
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Read by a robot
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- Genghis Green
- 10-30-17
Fascinating and very informative.
This was the best historic account of WWII in the Pacific I have ever found. The massive scope of the gathered material was masterfully broken down and delivered in a gripping and historic account. I thought I knew some things about this subject. I learned so much more. Great detail and material from both sides. Very, very educational. Well written. Well read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-10-16
Great book
Most history books are a little tedious, but this one combines behind the scenes decision making with thrilling battle action.
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- Erl Gould Purnell
- 10-03-16
Extremely complete & detailed
Toll does a magnificent job of narrating the Pacific war. He masterfully interweaves American views and circumstances with those of the Japanese. No doubt, America won the war because of industrial power, superior trading of aviators & seamen and a bold strategic and tactical vision. Yet, Toll clearly demonstrates how the Japanese beat themselves by Army-Navy in-fighting and the inability to face reality on the battlefield, in the air and on the sea. I was disappointed he didn't deal in more detail with the last year of the war. All in all, an excellent book which was well read.
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- Peter Ryers
- 10-27-18
Excellent History
A detailed naval,air force, and army history of the second world war pacific campaign. Highly recommended,
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- TGower
- 02-25-16
Tide
It is obvious a ton of research was done, with so many examples of events and observations by so many Japanese military and politicians referred to. Plus this book shed more light than many of the books I have read on WWII on interactions among the senior US military leaders and operational participants regarding events and actions all over the Pacific war. It was refreshing to be exposed to this new information. I look forward to the third book. These books are great reads.
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- Asarchus
- 07-06-21
Intense View of the Pacific War
Ian Toll has written a stunning second volume in his history of World War I in the Pacific. At the end of the Guadalcanal campaign, the Americans begin receiving quantities of new ships, aircraft, and materiel. First matching the Japanese fleet strength, then surpassing it in almost every respect. By the Spring of 1944, the Americans outclass their enemy in sea power, air might, and soldiering so overwhelmingly that when the Japanese venture out in strength at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-June, their air power is swept from the skies, their carrier fleet mauled beyond repair, and the strategic Marianas Islands fall to the Americans.
Ian Toll draws on contemporary sources, including private diaries, to get inside the minds of both sides' key planners and military leaders. This results in a more complete picture of the conflict than any previous history of the Pacific War. Especially fascinating are accounts of political maneuvering among Japanese leaders in Summer 1944 as Prime Minister Hideki Tojo jockeys to retain power after the military debacle at Saipan. A bonus for students of military aviation is Toll's detailed assessment of the "second generations" of naval aviation put forth by Americans and Japanese. The former concentrated on rugged construction and intense firepower; the latter on speed and range. The critical difference--relative quality of Japanese aircrews as the war progressed.
"The Conquering Tide" ends as General MacArthur and his commanders prepare to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. Great battles remain to be fought on land, air, and sea. But the strategies are set, and the die is cast. Now it is just a question of how much destruction will rain down on cities, islands, and fleets before the war ends. Toll's next and final volume in this history will surely by as enthralling as his first two.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-03-22
War is more than battle, it's people.
What makes this telling of the Pacific war remarkable is the insight into the mind and life experience of the Japanese public. Political leadership may hold the power, but the truth is with its people.
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- Tristan
- 07-23-20
Great Start but dissapointing ending
I very much enjoyed this book, it was informative and interesting, but I expected more for the ending.
there was no mention of the battle of Pelelu, Iwojima or even Okinawa, not even a talk about how The atom bombs have effected the Japanese.
Hell it didn't even mention the sinking of the Yamato or Musashi!
That aside I still enjoyed this novel.
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- James
- 12-13-15
good history lesson
Great story, good to learn what goes on behind the scenes - things some people find unpleasant
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- Carlos
- 10-28-17
Pesky Pronunciation
The story and writing is engaging, and in depth. After a while though, I could not ignore the narrator's continual mispronouncing of place names made so famous for the battles fought there. He did a good job with the Japanese names, but stumbled on many of the names of pacific islands. As an example, he continually said TAH-RAW-WA, instead of the the more familiar TARA-WA. He also omits the "point" in task force designations, so that it sounds as if he's referring to TF 51, instead of TF 50.1
It was annoying and sometimes confusing. But all in all an excellent book. So looking forward to the next volume in the trilogy.
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