Pacific Crucible :War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 - The Pacific War Trilogy

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Pacific Crucible

Pacific Crucible :War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 - The Pacific War Trilogy

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On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
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Winner of Northern California Book Award 2012

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780393343410
ISBN10 0393343413
Number Of Pages 656
Item Weight 789 g
Product Dimensions 155 x 236 x 43 mm
Publisher / Reseller WW Norton & Co
Format paperback
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"An entertaining, impressively researched chronicle of the tense period between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and American victory at the battle of Midway." -- Kirkus
"Revealing and poignant, Toll’s latest deftly navigates the rough waters of the Pacific struggle with flying colors." -- Publishers Weekly
"Excellent. The research is thorough, the writing clear, and the narrative flow exemplary…It is difficult to think of a recent book on this subject that is of such consistently outstanding value." -- Roland Green - Booklist (starred review)
"Well documented—albeit from previously published materials—and well written. Experienced World War II history buffs may bypass if they feel no need to read another retelling of this phase of the Pacific War, but nonspecialists and general readers will want to consider it." -- Library Journal
"Toll’s book does a good job of capturing strategy, tactics, weaponry and, especially, people, on the Japanese side as well as the American…You won’t set [Pacific Crucible] aside." -- Harry Levins - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Author's Bio

Ian W. Toll is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Conquering Tide, Pacific Crucible, and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in New York.

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