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Other Title: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
Originally published: 2005
Table of contents: 1. Storm over the Pacific : Japan's road to empire and war / Dennis Showalter -- 2. Pearl Harbor : Japanese planning and command structure / Ken Kotani -- 3. The rising sun strikes : the Japanese invasions / Tomoyuki Ishizu and Raymond Callahan -- 4. Coping with disaster : allied strategy and command in the Pacific, 1941-42 / Raymond Callahan -- 5. The height of folly : the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway / Robert Love -- 6. Learning from defeat : the Burma campaign / Daniel Marston -- 7. General MacArthur's war : the south and southwest Pacific campaigns, 1942-45 / David Horner -- 8. The ANZAC contribution : Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific war / David Horner -- 9. The shortest road to Tokyo : Nimitz and the central Pacific war / Theodore Gatchel -- 10. After Midway : Japanese naval strategy, 1942-45 / H.P. Willmott -- 11. Across the reef : amphibious warfare in the Pacific / Joseph H. Alexander -- 12. The island experience : the battle for Okinawa : April 1-June 21, 1945 / Bruce Gudmundsson -- 13. Ending the Pacific war : 'no alternative to annihilation' / Richard B. Frank