Cette trilogie épique plonge au cœur du plus grand conflit naval de l'histoire, démêlant les complexités de la Guerre du Pacifique avec un détail inébranlable. Elle explore les campagnes brutales, les sacrifices héroïques et le coût humain payé lors de cet affrontement mondial. L'auteur livre un récit captivant qui redonne vie aux moments dramatiques et aux histoires méconnues de cette période charnière de l'histoire 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