Pacific Thunder

摘要

The reader can stick a finger between almost any of the pages of Pacific Thunder and, after reading a few paragraphs, wonder how author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver was able to track down so many exacting details of so many specific battles, both large and small. The Japanese assumed that, even though they had missed the carriers, the devastating blow that they had delivered at Pearl Harbor would cause the U.S. military to be slow to recover, As Cleaver shows, they hadn't fully understood America's manufacturing might or their resolve.