Books Chronicle WW Ⅱ in the Pacific, British Fleets and Axis Midget Subs

摘要

At the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Ⅱ, Francis Pike offers a comprehensive look at the Pacific War, which the publisher claims is the first single-volume history of the war produced in 30 years. This voluminous book is well organized with subheads and serve in many ways as illuminating sidebars. The author is able to highlight some aspects that often go unremarked, such as the Chinese losses and the losses of Japanese soldiers to starvation. Pike also questions some assumptions of the causes of the war and the need for the fire- and atomic-bombing of Japan.