War Stories: Heroism in the Pacific

by North, Oliver

In his acclaimed bestseller War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom Colonel Oliver North brought you riveting, eyewitness accounts of the American military campaign that ended Saddam Hussein's bloody tyranny. Now, in War Stories: Heroism in the Pacific, he does the same thing for the unsung heroes of World War II.

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North includes gripping stories from Pearl Harbor; the Fall of the Philippines in January 1942; the living hell of the Bataan Death March; the daring Doolittle Raid; the Battle of the Coral Sea; the Pacific war's turning point at Midway in June 1942; the forgotten front of the China-Burma-India Theater; Guadalcanal; the Marianas; the battle of Leyte; the daring rescue of the Ghosts of Bataan in January 1945; Iwo Jima; and Okinawa, the last battle of World War II. He also takes you inside forgotten but decisive World War II engagements such as Tarawa and Peleliu. And he includes eyewitness accounts of the adventures of the fabled Flying Tigers and the Black Sheep Squadron. This book even contains the reminiscences of some of the Japanese who fought America's soldiers so tenaciously.

These accounts are full of surprises -- including eyewitness testimony from the Americans who fired the first shots at Pearl Harbor (plus solid evidence to back up their claims)! Marked throughout by North's heartfelt love for our nation and unstinting respect for those who fought and died to defend her, War Stories: Heroism in the Pacific is an unforgettable inside account of America's greatest military victories -- as told by the men who won them. War Stories: Heroism in the Pacific reveals:

• The secret Japanese plan to win the war despite overwhelming American superiority in numbers and materiel -- and why it almost succeeded

• Why Pearl Harbor was a disaster of unprecedented proportions, and yet failed in its principal goal

• Captured at Pearl Harbor: "I Japanese Naval Officer. Kill me in an honorable way"

• Little-known facts about December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor that are often overshadowed by more famous events of that fateful day

• The appalling condition of American intelligence and the abysmal state of American preparedness for war on December 7, 1941 -- and the price we paid for this for years thereafter

• Recently unearthed proof that the destroyer Ward, the Monaghan, and others sank three Japanese midget subs shortly before and during the infamous air attack on Pearl Harbor

• The appalling conditions and horrific events that led up to the largest contingent of U.S. Army troops ever to surrender to a foreign adversary

• The notorious "Bataan Death March": why it so quickly degenerated into a chaotic, genocidal extermination

• "I wonder how many more days I am going to spend in this world": what America's unsung heroes were thinking on the eve of some of the most decisive battles of the Pacific war

• Why the Doolittle Raid was such a surprise and a crushing blow to Japanese morale -- far beyond the actual damage that it did

• The miraculous wind change that helped Doolittle's raiders reach safe haven in China, against prohibitive odds, after bombing Tokyo

• The immense strategic blunder that the Japanese high command, flushed with the thrill of easy victories and filled with overconfidence, made in spring 1942

• "Station Hypo": the U.S. Navy station where signals specialists carefully recorded each of the Imperial Fleet's encoded radio broadcasts -- and then painstakingly decrypted them

• "As I pulled up from dropping my bomb I was attacked by a Japanese fighter plane so I had to take all the evasive maneuvers I ever learned" -- stunning tales from the battle that turned the tide: Midway

• How the Americans all but destroyed the Imperial Japanese Navy at Midway -- and how the Japanese did their best to keep the results from the world (and even from the Japanese people)

• Why a constant shortage of men and materiel characterized the entire Allied campaign in the China-Burma-India Theater

• The fateful Operation Ichi-Go -- and how Admiral Mountbatten decided to disrupt the Japanese plans

• Target Australia: how the Japanese set out to invade and conquer Australia by undertaking a systematic seizure of the Solomon Islands -- to the perplexity of the Americans

• The plane that enabled the Marines finally to challenge the air superiority the Japanese and their notorious Zero fighter plane enjoyed

• The battle that cost the lives of nearly 6,000 combatants in a scant seventy-six hours -- over an area the size of New York's Central Park

• Why, almost sixty years after the Battle of Iwo Jima, it remains controversial (plus a frank discussion of why the battle was more brutal than similar battles for territory in Europe)

• The first major ground battle for the Americans, and their first taste of bloody hand-to-hand combat

• Why the Americans were surprised that they met so little Japanese naval opposition to their shelling of Leyte

• The sad fate of Admiral Naguma, commander of the Japanese assault forces that hit Pearl Harbor

• June 1945: how a Soviet-Japanese alliance almost turned the tide of the war when the Japanese were on the brink of defeat -- and why Stalin made a sudden about-face and declared war on Japan instead

• The inside story of the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan -- and a realistic discussion of those events, free of politically correct handwringing

  Also available: War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom and War Stories: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler.
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  Although I have not gotten to read your new book yet, I look forward to reading it. My husband, who was a Marine from the second division in WWII and served four years in the pacific,now deceased, would probably have loved to read it. My heart goes out to those guys in Fallujah and I think I have some idea of what they are going through. From the stories my husband told me about going from one island to another, which took about 4 years, and then later served in the occupation of Nagasaki, their task is difficult to say the least. I enjoy seeing your Sunday night shows and I am very proud of your service and your compassion towards our troops when you go to Iraq. Please keep up the good work. Bless you. Not Rated  
  MY DAD HARRY LEWIS PFC,WAS IN THE ARMY DURING WW2. HE WENT INTO ACTIVE SERVICE MARCH 6, 1942. BATTLES: PHILIPPINE LIBERATION, WITH TWO BRONZE STARS. ASIATIC PACIFIC THEATER RIBBION WITH 3 BRONZE STARS. ARRIVED: PACIFIC THEATER JULY 28,1942 USA JUNE 26, 1945. COMBAT INFANTRYMAN BADGE EX RIFLE. SOUTHERN PHIPPIPINES ALEUIANS GO 33 WD 45 EASTERN MANDATES GO 48WD 45 HIS LOVING DAUGHTER EVELYN HENDERSON MR NORTH, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT TO LOOK FOR ON SUNDAYS NIGHTS, TO SEE ACTUAL BATTLES DAD FOUGHT IN DURING WW2? HE TAKED ABOUT LEYTE. HE DIED IN FEBUARY, 1998, AT AGE 82, HERE IN KNOXVILLE, TN.

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