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The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose

The Pacific follows the struggle and triumphs of four US Marines and a US Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War Two. Built on hundreds of hours of testimony as well as diaries, letters and memoirs, The Pacific tells the true stories of men who put their lives on the line for the Allied forces.

These men fought an unforgiving enemy who preferred suicide to surrender and therefore would dish out humiliation and unimaginable hardship to anyone they captured. The four men saw casualties among soldiers and civilians alike. They earned medals, but they came at a shocking price.

This is the companion book to the HBO miniseries 'The Pacific'. It follows the intertwined journeys of three US marines from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rainforests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Pelelieu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after VJ Day.

Although this is a companion to the HBO series, it stands on its own and provides a riveting and personal account of the war in the pacific. The photos in the book are also not from the movie but reproductions of photos supplied by members of the families of the actual men this book is about, plus others from the National archives and other sources. The Pacific provides a riveting and personal account of the war in the Pacific. It is a book that anyone wanting a more personal account of the Second World War will enjoy reading.

RRP $35.00
Published by The Text Publishing Company

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