Pacific War: Island by Island

You know the European war well. You can trace the beaches of Normandy, the Bulge, the road to Berlin. But the other half of the war, the one fought across ten thousand miles of ocean and a handful of coral islands, is still a list of names you half recognize.

This is that war told island by island, from Pearl Harbor and Midway through Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Each chapter opens inside a single decision under pressure, on a carrier bridge or at a map table, then follows it down to the Marine in the foxhole and the Japanese soldier in the cave, both of them human, both of them paying for it. Every scene rests on the documented record, and no quote is invented.

By the end you understand how the Pacific was actually won, and what the winning cost. Press play and start at Pearl Harbor.