the summer ofthe tide had turned in the Pacific War against the Japanese, The war was not nearly over, however, and the U, S. Marines had their heaviest season of combat awaiting them, Here for the first time is a detailed photographic history for the Fighting Leathernecks' fierce combat for the Marianas, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
Illustrated with hundreds of neverbeforepublished photographs and supplemented with fullcolor maps, War in the Western Pacific is a historical and visual treat.
This is more of a photo book with a brief history than an in depth history, I was dismayed by some of the errors in the captions, For instance, Mr Hammel identifies thegallon drums on the engine deck of
two marine Shermans as being water storage for the accompanying marine infantry when in reality they were actually used as wading trunks.
Unfortunately this is not the only caption I was skeptical of, I was born in, in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia in Januaryand earned a degree in Journalism from Temple University in, My road to writing military history began at age, when I was stuck in bed for a week with a childhood illness, My father bought me the first paperback book I ever owned, Walter Lords Day of Infamy, As I devoured the book, I realized that I wanted to write books exactly like it what we now call popular narrative history.
Lord had pieced together the book from official records illuminated with the recollections of people who were there, I began to write my first military history book when I was, It eventually turned o I was born in, in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia in Januaryand earned a degree in Journalism from Temple University in, My road to writing military history began at age, when I was stuck in bed for a week with a childhood illness, My father bought me the first paperback book I ever owned, Walter Lords Day of Infamy, As I devoured the book, I realized that I wanted to write books exactly like it what we now call popular narrative history.
Lord had pieced together the book from official records illuminated with the recollections of people who were there, I began to write my first military history book when I was, It eventually turned out to be Guadalcanal: Starvation Island, I completed the first draft before I graduated from high school, During my first year of college, I wrote the first draft of Munda Trail, and I got started onHours when I was a college junior.
Then I got married and went to work, which left me no time to pursue my writing except as a journalism student, I quit school at the end of my junior year and went to work in advertising in, I completed my journalism degree in, moved to California in, and finally got back to writing while I operated my own one man ad agency and started on a family.
Hours was published in, and Chosin followed in, At the end ofI was offered enough of an advance to write The Root: The Marines in Beirut to take up writing books full time.
The rest, as they say, is history, I eventually published under my own imprint, Pacifica Press, which morphed into Pacifica Military History, At some point in the lates, I realized I had not written in five years, so I pretty much closed down the publishing operation, and pieced together a string of pictorial combat histories for Zenith Press.
I "retired" inand took up writing as a full time hobby, And here we are. Now I am publishing several new narratives under the Pacifica Military History imprint, reprinting all of my older books as print on demand trade paperbacks, and also converting my body of older works to digital format for sale under.
com's Kindle program and other e book programs, I also publish ebook editions of other people's new military history and military fiction at sitelink sitelink,