Pacific Onslaught

A look at the early years of the Pacific conflict in World War II, by the New York Times –bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers . Japan had mighty ambitions: to control the Western Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor devastated their primary obstacle—the American Pacific fleet—and they swept across the region. What ensued was a bitter struggle in which many thousands of soldiers lost their lives on both sides. This is the first book in Paul Kennedy’s chronicle of the Pacifi