Product Description: Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American archival material. Japanese scholarship and documents, and research and memoirs of scholarly and military men, has written a stunning, complete and up-to-date history of the conflict...read more

Looks at how the end of the war in the Pacific theater of World War II led to all new conflicts and power struggles among the Asian people of the former Japanese empire, analyzing the implications of these battles between political rivals, ethnic groups, nationalist factions, and others in the wake of the war. Read by Michael Prichard. Simultaneous.

Product Description: The present volume describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate postwar years, and the advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of 1954...read more

Amazon.com Review: Ronald H. Spector's At War at Sea is both a greatest-hits treatment of 20th-century naval battles and a comprehensive history of how sea-fighting tactics and technology have developed over the last century. Spector begins with what he calls "probably the most decisive naval battle of the last two-hundred years," and it's one that many American readers may not know well: the Battle of Tsushima, in May 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War...read more

A former director of naval history draws on more than a hundred diaries, memoirs, letter, interviews, and public records to provide an account of the most important naval conflicts of the twentieth century, from the 1905 Battle of Tsushima to the sophisticated missile engagements off the Falklands and the Persian Gulf. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A fact-packed reference guide to U.S. military history covers battles, men, and weapons that made the difference from the Revolution to the Gulf War, with more than 1,100 entries written by more than five hundred distinguished contributors. (view table of contents)

Looks at the battles that took place in Vietnam in 1968, describes the conditions under which American troops had to live and fight, and discusses the reasons the war dragged on

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Product Description: United States Army in Vietnam. Traces the origins of the Army's involvement in Indochina from World War 2 to the end of the Eisenhower Administration.