Eagle In opposition to the Solar: The American Conflict With Japan

A surprising historical past of the battle within the Pacific written by award-winning army historian Ronald Spector. Drawing on declassified intelligence recordsdata, an abundance of British and American archival materials, Japanese scholarship and paperwork, and analysis and memoirs of scholarly and army males, Spector focuses on the key battles within the Pacific theater in addition to the smaller: from the assorted rivalries between branches of the U.S. armed companies to the issues of command and allocating sources. Spector has written “the very best one-volume historical past of that advanced battle” (
The New York Occasions). Solely now can the complete scope of the battle within the Pacific be totally understood.