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Books : Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan |
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Books : Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan |
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by: Ronald Spector
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5426 EAN: 9780394741017 ISBN: 0394741013 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 624 Publication Date: October 12, 1985 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: October 12, 1985 Sales Rank: 17924 Studio: Vintage Editorial Review: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Best Single Volume Account of the American War in the PacificI read this shortly after the first edition came out. I was taking a year off to travel around the world and I was going to spend a good six months in the South Pacific. Although I had read a lot of history on the war prior to this, I wanted a good general history to tie everything together. I wanted one as in-depth as I could get. From this volume I made again launched into a more detailed reading on individual battles and campaigns. This book was both admirable in its sweep and it is well written and researched, with a very good attention to detail that one does not often find in general overview books. The downfall of America and her island-hopping campaign is told with very good balance between the macro-polical objectives -- the machinations, intrigue, inter-service rivalry, and horsetrading -- is balanced nicely wiht the battles themselves and the individual sacrifice of the American soldiers. The carrier war is a point well described with Spector taking as much time to describe the Midway Battles as he does for the later Marianas "Turkey Shoot." One area I was very pleased to read was the small bit on the American Black troops in the theatre. The book does not cover America's very limited contribution to the mainland war in Asia, but it does give a very good overview on the discussions and different visions the Americans and British had in the Pacific as a whole. With it being over 40 years since these horrible events unfolded it is worthy to note the Spector also deals with some of the unseemly side of the American war in the Pacific, how it migrated very quickly into a racial war with its concommitent valuation of the Japanese as less than human. From the Marine penchant for killing the few prisoners that were willing to surrender, to the wholesale destruction of Japanese cities by conventional and then Nuclear bombing. All of this said while not loosing sight of the very ugly aspects of Japanese Imperial tyrrany in Pacific and its treatment of other Asians as well as Allied Prisoners of War. A good meaty read from cover to cover and a very good jumping off point for the study of individual campaigns and battles. Rating: - Pacific War must readNot that this fine book needs any further reviews in praise, But I felt compelled to say that this is a masterpiece with a remarkably complete overview of the Pacific campaign in a comparatively small volume. Mr. Spector wastes no words in this highly readable and commendably concise historical contribution. It helped to establish a continuity to the events that I didn't always appreciate the significance of in reading many much longer books, excellent in their kind, of narrower scope in time. Rating:  - Wonderfullly concise overview of Pacific WarThis is a one volume summary of the Pacific War between the United States and Japan. I have always found the Pacific War hard to understand. It involved huge distances, and a large number of campaigns. I found that this book, for the first time, gave me a very clear overview of the whole war. Starting with a very clear discussion of the state of mind, and the state of military readiness, of the two nations, Spector then gives a very clear, easy to read, chronological summary of the whole war. If you are looking for an effective introduction to the Pacific War, this is your book. Spector, by and large, just describes and does not pass judgment. He does have a few arguments, however. First, he is not a fan of Douglas MacArthur. He thinks that MacArthur's initial defense of the Phillipines was badly bungled. He also thinks that MacArthur let rivalry with Nimitz, as well as purely personal ego factors, get in he way of sound military judgment, on a number of occasions. He also believes that rivalry between the Army and the Navy caused a divided command in the Pacific, which could easily have lead to disaster. Rating: - A One Volume History of the Pacific WarRonald Spector's "Eagle Against The Sun" was published as far back as 1985 but holds up extremely well as perhaps the best one-volume history of the U.S. war with Japan. Spector's sweep is broad, inclusive, and incisive, packing a tremendous amount of analysis into just 500 pages. Spector starts, not with Pearl Harbor, but with the political and military climates in the United States and Japan before the war, to make the point that decisions on aircraft, ship types and war plans would have an enormous impact on the opening phases of the war. Spector, a Vietnam veteran, was no worshiper of the brass; his caustic analysis of the U.S. command structure in the Pacific and the planning of each campaign suggests just how much was owed to political as well as to military considerations. Spector's concise narrative sketches each of the major campaigns in the Central and Southwest Pacific areas, while finding time to address U.S. efforts in the China-Burma-India theater as well. The reader is left with a stunning sense of the sheer scale of the war waged against Japan. Spector also imparts an appreciation for the ability of the U.S. Armed Forces to overcame surprise and a lack of preparation in 1941 to defeat the Japanese Empire by 1945. This book is highly recommended as a detailed popular history of the war in the Pacific that will appeal to both the general reader and the student of military history.
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