Yet the majority of fighting and dying in the war against Japan was done not by Marines but by unsung Army soldiers. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian “Out here, mention is seldom seen of the achievements of the Army ground troops,” wrote one officer in the fall of 1943, “whereas the Marines are blown up to the skies.” Even today, the Marines are celebrated as the victors of the Pacific, a reflection of a well-deserved reputation for valor. An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die “This eloquent and powerful narrative is military history written the way it should be.”-James M. McManus’s trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War, proving McManus to be one of our finest historians of World War II.Coming Soon! Available in paperback as of August 4, 2020.
This masterful history is the second volume of John C. A sprawling yet page-turning narrative, the story spans the battles for Saipan and Guam, the appalling carnage of Peleliu, General MacArthur’s dramatic return to the Philippines, and the grinding jungle combat to capture the island of Leyte. Now, they had to prove they could win a war.īrilliantly researched and written, Island Infernos moves seamlessly from the highest generals to the lowest foot soldiers and in between, capturing the true essence of this horrible conflict.
Yet the Army had proven they could fight. The challenges ahead were enormous: supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria, and other tropical diseases fighting an enemy prone to ever-more desperate and dangerous assaults. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America ever closer to victory or defeat.Īfter some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe, from Alaska’s Aleutians to Burma and New Guinea. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army’s fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor.
In Fire and Fortitude-winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History-John C.
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