The Pacific War: The Strategy Politics and Players that Won the War

About this book

Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific a conflict whose nature is only obscured by the linear narrative. In this book a veteran and respected military author opens the story of the Pacific War to a broader and deeper view. Going beyond the usual accounting William B. Hopkins investigates the strategies politics and personalities that shaped the conduct of the war. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land sea (and significantly by America undersea) and air offers a more realistic perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded--in many ways and on many fronts. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island this account offers a whole new way of understanding the hows--and more significantly the whys of the Pacific War.