Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima 1941-45 (Campaigns of World War II) by Andrew A. Wiest

by Andrew Wiest, Gregory Louis Mattson

Between 1941 and 1945, millions of men, thousands of aircraft and hundreds of ships were involved in the campaigns that raged across the Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, Burma and China. This history examines the whirlwind Japanese victories of 1941 and 1942 and the grim, island-hopping counterattack in which Allied forces slowly forced the enemy back.

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2001

About the author

Andrew A. Wiest is presently a Professor of History at the University of Southern Misssissippi, and serves as director of the Vietnam Studies Program and co-director of the university's Center for the Study of War and Society.