Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every
" The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the
Describes General Douglas MacArthur's remarkable victory over entrenched Japanese forces in New Guinea during World War II despite understrength, illness-wracked, and battle-weary U.S. and Australian
