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A critical look at the decisive Japanese-American episodes in "The Great Pacific War". It includes the Japanese perspective, bringing to light challenging facts - for example, that the Japanese attempted to cause forest fires in the American West by releasing hydrogen-filled balloons.
List of contents
Maps and Photographs, Preface, Acknowledgments, 1 Prelude to Conflict, 2 Planning Operation Hawaii, 3 From Pearl Harbor to Java Sea, 4 Coral Sea and Midway, 5 First Allied Land Victories, 6 The Marianas and the Philippines, 7 Submarines, Firebombs, and Survival, 8 The CBI Theater, 9 The Final Campaigns, 10 Japan Surrenders, References, Index
About the author
William A. Renzi received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1968, where he studied with the late Gordon W. Prange. Professor Renzi was a member of the history faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; his primary research interests were the diplomatic and military history of the two world wars. Among his other works are In the Shadow of the Sword: Italy's Neutrality and Entrance into the Great War, 1914-1915. Professor Renzi died in December 1990., Mark Roehrs received his Masters Degree in History from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and is currently completing Ph.D. studies at Louisiana State University. His studies focus primarily on the military and diplomatic relations of the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
