Operation Victory: Winning the Pacific War Review

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(More customer reviews)The battle for supremacy in the Pacific Ocean during World War II was a bitter one. On one side there was the ferocious fighting ability of the Japanese military and the fact that they were largely fighting a defensive war. The Americans had superior numbers in troops, ships, planes and equipment and an equal determination to fight.
The first year of the war from the perspective of the Americans was one of giving ground slowly and trying to make it as costly as possible for the Japanese. On the Japanese side, their goal was to take as much ground as possible and fortify it as strongly and as cheaply as possible. Both sides did this, the American forces on the Philippines held out for as long as possible and the American stand on Wake Island was the stuff of legends.
There were two turning points, the American slogging land and naval victory at Guadalcanal and the spectacular naval victory at Midway. The destruction of the Japanese aircraft carriers at Midway doomed the Japanese to defeat, after that it was only a matter of the degree of American resolve.
This book tells that story, using a combination of text and images, the ultimate American victory is told from the American perspective. The war was a bitter one, few Japanese were taken prisoner, most elected to kill themselves rather than surrender. In general, the few members of the Japanese military that surrendered were Korean conscripts rather than actual Japanese. While certainly not definitive, this history of the Pacific war gives you an excellent synopsis of how the war was fought and the role of the major players who led both sides to their respective conclusions.


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