In Fire and Fortitude --winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History--John C.
McManus\'s trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War, proving Mcmanus to be one of our finest historians of World War II..
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.
Brilliantly 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.
Now, they had to prove they could win a war.
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.
Louis Post-Dispatch - Outstanding.-- Publishers Weekly - Rich and absorbing.--Richard Overy, author of Blood and Ruins - A considerable achievement, and one that, importantly, adds much to our understanding of the Pacific War.--James Holland, author of Normandy \'44 After 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. --St. --The Wall Street Journal - Wonderful.
A feat of prodigious scholarship.
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.
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
