Discusses the strategy, battles, and major personalities involved in the recapture of the Philippine Islands during World War II.
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Discusses the strategy, battles, and major personalities involved in the recapture of the Philippine Islands during World War II.
Largely a personal account based on the author's direct observations while engaged as editor of the "Nippon Times."
"From the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth, America and Japan were caught in an extraordinary political, military and economic duel. The clash between one of the newest cultures in the world and one of the oldest was characterized by a cultural …
"From the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth, America and Japan were caught in an extraordinary political, military and economic duel. The clash between one of the newest cultures in the world and one of the oldest was characterized by a cultural …
-- War at the End of the World From the Hardcover edition.
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II--General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. One American soldier called it "a green hell on earth…
