Esta épica trilogía se adentra en el corazón del mayor conflicto naval de la historia, desentrañando las complejidades de la Guerra del Pacífico con un detalle inquebrantable. Explora las brutales campañas, los sacrificios heroicos y el coste humano pagado durante este enfrentamiento global. El autor ofrece una narrativa apasionante que da vida a los momentos dramáticos y a las historias no contadas de este período crucial de la historia mundial.
Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide, ' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal"--Dust jacket flap