Excellent book. Discusses in just the right detail the events leading up to and after the major battles and strategy in the Pacific from the Allied point of view. Intermixed are personal accounts written by men who were actually there. Learned many interesting not-well-known facts. Did you kno...
I think the best way to describe this read as a lesson in judgment. I came away from the body of the work on something of a high horse, as North managed to wet my irritation circuit for his apparent sexism toward Robinette, his seemingly pointless insertion of himself as a minor character in the ...
It was the Greatest Generation’s greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines—under the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradley—rescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.In War ...