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Award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio offer a full account and a provocative re-examination of the last year of World War II in the Pacific.
List of contents
- Introduction: The Reckoning
- 1. Gaining Momentum
- 2. Moving Ahead on New Guinea, April-July 1944
- 3. The Marianas Campaign, June-August 1944
- 4. Accelerating the Advance, August-October 1944
- 5. Leyte to Manila, October 1944-March 1945
- 6. Iwo Jima, February-March 1945
- 7. Recovering Luzon, February-June 1945
- 8. Beyond Human Endurance: Taking All of the Philippines, February-June 1945
- 9. Okinawa
- 10. Two Down and One to Go: The Home Front, March-June 1945
- 10. Potsdam, July-August 1945
- 11. Surrender at Last, August 1945
- Conclusion
About the author
Waldo Heinrichs is Dwight E. Stanford Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University. He is the author of American Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition, which won the Allan Nevins Prize. Heinrichs served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army's 86th Division, one of the last two divisions to be deployed to Europe in World War II and the first to be redeployed to the Pacific in preparation for the invasion of Japan. He and his wife live in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Marc Gallicchio is a Professor of History at Villanova University and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in Japan, 1998 - 1999 and 2004 - 2005. He is the author of The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895 - 1945, which won the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell book prize.
Summary
Award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio offer a full account and a provocative re-examination of the last year of World War II in the Pacific.
Additional text
This book brings to life those final years of World War II right up to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, evoking not only Japanese policies of desperate defence, but the sometimes spiteful debates on the home-front. Heinrichs and Gallicchio deliver a gripping and provocative narrative that challenges the decision
