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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,968 ratings — published 2011
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
by (shelved 17 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.62 — 7,705 ratings — published 2015
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,644 ratings — published 2020
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,682 ratings — published 2011
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,619 ratings — published 1981
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,919 ratings — published 2005
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,342 ratings — published 2007
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,693 ratings — published 2011
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,641 ratings — published 1980
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,258 ratings — published 1957
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 ― A History of China's War of Resistance Against Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,416 ratings — published 2013
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,967 ratings — published 1986
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,343 ratings — published 1970
The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,787 ratings — published 2011
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 858 ratings — published 2013
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,296 ratings — published 1961
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,022,846 ratings — published 2010
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,256 ratings — published 1990
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,470 ratings — published 1999
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,073 ratings — published 2003
Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 888 ratings — published 2019
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.43 — 849 ratings — published 2020
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 311 ratings — published 2009
Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 836 ratings — published 2018
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,530 ratings — published 2016
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 94,049 ratings — published 1946
The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 473 ratings — published 1968
Fire in the Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 371 ratings — published 1999
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 322 ratings — published 1996
Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.46 — 762 ratings — published 2021
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,654 ratings — published 1985
Miracle at Midway (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,115 ratings — published 1982
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,201 ratings — published 1999
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,626 ratings — published 2010
The Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,597 ratings — published 2009
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,872 ratings — published 1957
Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 620 ratings — published
Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)
by (shelved 5 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,569 ratings — published 1943
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.56 — 547 ratings — published 2023
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (Tuttle Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,970 ratings — published 1996
Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 409 ratings — published 2002
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 504 ratings — published 2020
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 668 ratings — published 1995
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 621 ratings — published 2003
Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 219 ratings — published 2016
Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 589 ratings — published 1955
The Pacific War: 1941-1945 – The Definitive Naval History from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 442 ratings — published 1981
Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 898 ratings — published 1977
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 41,062 ratings — published 2001
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pacific-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,791 ratings — published 1981
“GI’s were returning to the United States and many others were being shipped to the Pacific to finish what looked to be a difficult battle ahead. The Japanese soldiers were a formidable foe, many of whom were willing to die for their country. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later dropped one on Nagasaki. The Imperial Japanese Navy was now unable to continue conducting operations and their army would no longer be able to withstand an Allied invasion of the Japanese islands. Less than a week later, on September 2, 1945, Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the Japanese Instrument of an unconditional Surrender on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor. In the United States, everyone celebrated VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day, and the end of the war.”
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“I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive--those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
