Setting the Rising Sun focuses on the U.S. Third Fleet’s carrier-based fighters during the last months of World War II. Kevin Mahoney recounts this vital period of the Pacific War, drawing on bo
Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theaterFirsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopersDetailed maps illustrate battlesFrom the attack on Pearl Harbor through Japa
First work dedicated solely to the use of Army tanks in the Pacific Theater Covers armor battles in the Philippines, Makin, the Solomons, Rabaul, New Guinea, Saipan, Guam, and Okinawa Although the his
Mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al CaponeWritten as a travelogue through a Europe plagued by rising militarism and anti-SemitismCovers not only Hitler a
