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Pacific War Books
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,258 ratings — published 2011
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.62 — 7,150 ratings — published 2015
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.50 — 48,043 ratings — published 1981
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,428 ratings — published 2011
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,744 ratings — published 2005
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,216 ratings — published 2007
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,167 ratings — published 1970
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,121 ratings — published 2020
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,293 ratings — published 2013
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,541 ratings — published 2011
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,917 ratings — published 1986
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,512 ratings — published 1980
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,264 ratings — published 1957
The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,684 ratings — published 2011
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,239 ratings — published 1961
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,185 ratings — published 1999
Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 816 ratings — published 2019
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,424 ratings — published 2016
The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 455 ratings — published 1968
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 840 ratings — published 2013
Fire in the Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 365 ratings — published 1999
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,728 ratings — published 2003
Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.46 — 689 ratings — published 2021
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.42 — 801 ratings — published 2020
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 292 ratings — published 2009
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,613 ratings — published 1985
Miracle at Midway (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,065 ratings — published 1982
Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 761 ratings — published 2018
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,170 ratings — published 1999
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 90,011 ratings — published 1946
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,236 ratings — published 1990
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 315 ratings — published 1996
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (Tuttle Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,572 ratings — published 1996
Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 396 ratings — published 2002
Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 214 ratings — published 2016
Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 565 ratings — published 1955
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,530 ratings — published 2010
The Pacific War: 1941-1945 – The Definitive Naval History from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 431 ratings — published 1981
Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 871 ratings — published 1977
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 39,786 ratings — published 2001
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,743 ratings — published 1981
The Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,407 ratings — published 2009
Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 481 ratings — published 2012
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.04 — 259 ratings — published 2005
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,794 ratings — published 1957
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,000,476 ratings — published 2010
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,395 ratings — published 2000
Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 611 ratings — published 2010
Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,378 ratings — published 1943
Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 79 ratings — published
“Why is physical love bad and spiritual love good? I don't understand. I can't help feeling that they are the same. I would like to boast that I am she who could destroy her body and soul in Gehenna for the sake of a love, for the sake of a passion she could not understand, or for the sake of the sorrow they engendered.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
“GI’s were returning to the United States and many others were being shipped to the Pacific to finish what looked to be a difficult battle ahead. The Japanese soldiers were a formidable foe, many of whom were willing to die for their country. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later dropped one on Nagasaki. The Imperial Japanese Navy was now unable to continue conducting operations and their army would no longer be able to withstand an Allied invasion of the Japanese islands. Less than a week later, on September 2, 1945, Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the Japanese Instrument of an unconditional Surrender on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor. In the United States, everyone celebrated VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day, and the end of the war.”
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