Questa epica trilogia si addentra nel cuore del più grande conflitto navale della storia, svelando le complessità della Guerra del Pacifico con dettagli incrollabili. Esplora le brutali campagne, i sacrifici eroici e il costo umano pagato durante questo scontro globale. L'autore offre una narrazione avvincente che porta alla vita i momenti drammatici e le storie inedite di questo periodo cruciale della storia mondiale.
Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide, ' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal"--Dust jacket flap