War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay Review

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(More customer reviews)On 7 December 1941 the United States of America was attacked without warning or provocation. That event was a direct attack on the American Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was, as the president later stated; "A day which will live in infamy," and so it does.
Unfortunately for the Japanese Navy, however, the US Aircraft Carriers were many miles away at sea and so remained unscathed. They were later to play the most vital role in the forthcoming war. It has often been said that had they also been at anchor in Pearl Harbor on that day, the outcome of the entire War in the Pacific might have been very different. Personally I take the view that the outcome would have been the same - only the time taken would have been much longer.
This author takes the reader from that catastrophic attack right through a catalogue of events to September 1945 when General Douglas MacArthur accepted the surrender of the Japanese. In so doing, Japan became the only nation in history to unconditionally surrender to a foreign power without one single foreign soldier ever having set foot on her homeland soil.
From the Appointment of Admiral Nimitz as he succeeded Admiral Kimmel (who was eventually held to blame for that Japanese attack which brought the USA into the war - although it is difficult to see what any other commander might have done bearing in mind the USA was not aware of any impending attack at the time), through conflict after conflict, almost island by island, this author does a most thorough job.- and tells the story very well indeed.
If you really want to know what the War in the Pacific was all about, this is an excellent choice.
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