Eagle Against the Sun : The American War with Japan

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1985. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American archival material. Japanese scholarship and documents, and research and memoirs of scholarly and military men, has written a stunning, complete and up-to-date history of the conflict. Publisher's Weekly A historian at the Army Center for Military History, Spector concentrates on the problem of command in the Southern Pacific theaters, the rivalries between the various U.S. armed services and the problem of allocating resources. PW praised his ability to ``show how even the most efficiently run campaigns unfold against a background of violent dispute.''.