“Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.”—LA Times Book Review The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor—marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7,000 Americans and over 30,000 Japanese. This volume, ten years in the writing, recounts the full story of the critical campaign for Guadalcanal and is based on first-time translations of official Japanese Defense Agency accounts and recently declassified U.S. radio intelligence, Guadalcanal recreates the battle—on land, at sea, and in the air—as never before: it examines the feelings of both American and Japanese soldiers, the strategies and conflicts of their commanders, and the strengths and weaknesses of various fighting units.

Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle

History

Frank, Richard B.

Military

Penguin??Books

In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders learned in the summer of 1945 that their alternate strategy to end the war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the dismal prospects of negotiation. Here also, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how Japan's leaders were willing to risk complete annihilation to preserve the nation's existing order. Frank's comprehensive account demolishes long-standing myths with the stark realities of this great historical controversy.

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

Asia

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability has become an indispensable trait for military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. One of the first proponents of a new dimension in warfare--the Air Force--MacArthur was also unmatched historically for his management of peace during the U.S. occupation of Japan. For generations to come, MacArthur's legacy will yield profitable--and entertaining--examples to Americans in and out of uniform.

Macarthur (Great Generals)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Griffin

Product Description 
“A sweeping epic.… Promises to do for the war in the Pacific what Rick Atkinson did for Europe.” ―James M. Scott, author of Rampage 
In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies. In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary evidence to tell an epic story that gave birth to the world we live in now. 16 pages of photographs; 14 maps 
 Review 
"Vivid, engrossing, and indispensable to an understanding of today’s world." 
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Richard Snow, author of A Measureless Peril\n"The first of what promises to be a magisterial trilogy.… Serious scholars and professionals in and out of uniform should read this book, which thoroughly fills a gap many have in the history of World War II." 
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Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, US Army (ret.), ARMY magazine\n"Outstanding, wide-ranging.… Frank has a humane, sure eye for detail." 
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Rana Mitter, BBC History magazine\n"Absolutely outstanding.… Brisk and compelling.… A real game changer for the historiography of the Pacific Theater in World War II." 
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Jerry Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books\n"Magisterial.… [Richard B.] Frank’s searing account of the horrors that took place in Shanghai, not to mention Nanking, doesn’t just come down to the numbers that were slaughtered, raped or made destitute by men crazed by war. It’s not about the statistics, though he’s good on them too. It was his account of the chaos of war that most gripped me.… Excellent though he is at most things, Frank is arguably at his best in his portrayal of both the leading and minor characters in this story.”" 
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Malcolm Murfett, Literary Review (UK)\n"Frank offers readers a wealth of material that provides a more nuanced perspective of the events that preceded [the United States’] entry into the war.… There will be two more volumes to come in this set, and I cannot wait to read them." 
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Vick Mickunas, Dayton Daily News\n"In this impressive reassessment of the early phases of the Pacific War, Richard B. Frank offers a rare combination of deep scholarship, thoughtful analysis, and compelling prose to illuminate aspects of the war too often overlooked in Western accounts: China, Malaya, Burma, and Bataan. This is an essential and rewarding work for anyone who wants to understand the Second World War." 
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Craig L. Symonds, author of World War II at Sea: A Global History\n"Richard B. Frank’s Asia-Pacific War trilogy is destined to become as much a go-to scholar’s resource as his definitive 
Guadalcanal book has long been invaluable for researchers of America’s first Pacific offensive of 1942. 
Tower of Skulls is deeply researched, providing fresh evaluation of the political, economic, and military scenes of the early years of World War II. And yet this book remains highly readable, thanks to an artful blend of personal perspectives and colorful battle summaries." 
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Stephen L. Moore, author of Uncommon Valor and Pacific Payback\n" 
Tower of Skulls is the opening volume of what promises to be the definitive history of the Asia-Pacific War; a gripping account of two wars, one on the Asian mainland, the other in the islands of the Pacific, that conjoined and became a history-changing struggle without mercy or precedent. The scope is epic and the story has the pulling power of fiction. It is that rare thing: a work of staggering scholarship bound to appeal to a wide reading audience." 
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Donald L. Miller, author of Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy 
 About the Author 
Richard B. Frank is

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

W.W.Norton&Company

An eye-opening, pathbreaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal.
In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. From just two nation states with real sovereignty, Thailand and Japan, and two with compromised sovereignty, China and Mongolia, the region today encompasses at least nineteen major sovereign nations. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly describes in exquisite detail the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies.
Beginning with China’s long-neglected years of heroic, costly resistance, Tower of Skulls explodes outward to campaigns including Singapore, the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, India, and Burma, as well as across the Pacific to Pearl Harbor. These pages cast penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war. They feature not just battles, but also the sweeping political, economic, and social effects of the war, and are graced with a rich tapestry of individual characters from top-tier political and military figures down to ordinary servicemen, as well as the accounts of civilians of all races and ages.
In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary evidence to tell an epic story that gave birth to the world we live in now. 16 pages of photographs; 14 maps

MacArthur (Great Generals (Audio))

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability, a quality which hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability now reigns as the most indispensable trait for high military leadership, in this era of technological leaps that guarantee radical changes in the nature of war during the span of an ordinary career. No American figure better exemplifies this trait than the man who was commissioned before the Wright Brothers' first flight but became a keen exponent of an entirely new dimension in warfare. MacArthur was also in charge of the U.S. occupation of Japan, the most successful occupation in history.

Leaders & Notable People

Blackstone Audiobooks

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability that hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability now reigns as the most indispensable trait for high military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. No American figure better exemplifies this trait than the man who was commissioned before the Wright Brothers' first flight but became a keen exponent of an entirely new dimension in warfare. He was also in charge of the U.S. occupation of Japan, the most successful occupation in history.

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Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

Macarthur (Great Generals)

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

MacArthur (Great Generals (Audio))

MacArthur (Great Generals (Audio))