Toll, Ian W

Explores the history of World War II in the Pacific Theater, arguing that the battles to wrest the Pacific islands back from Japan were some of the most-deciding battles of the entire war. Explores each engagement in the Pacific, wartime council meetings in both Washington and Tokyo, and how the increase in wartime naval production can be seen as the secret to Allied victory.

Examines the history of the U.S. and Japanese Navy during World War II, analyzing the strategies of admirals on both sides of the war, production statistics of Japanese Zeros and American airplane, and the personal lives of both U.S. and Japanese admirals, including Isokoru Yamamoto, the mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack.

The story of the creation of the U.S. Navy that chronicles the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century process that would launch the nation into becoming a powerful naval force.