Introduction: Pacific War Redux
Chapter 1: Going to War
Chapter 2: Losing the War
Chapter 3: Winning the War
Chapter 4: Missing Ships
Chapter 5: Sunk!
Chapter 6: A Fleet-in-Being
Chapter 7: The Battle for the Skies
Chapter 8: The Army in the Pacific
Conclusion: The Road Not Taken
James B. Wood is Charles Keller Professor of History at Williams College.
[Wood's] carefully constructed arguments stem from a wide reading
and understanding of the war's historic literature, and his
suggested alternative courses of Japanese actions are entirely
credible . . . [his] careful examination of alternative
possibilities in the Pacific War is an impressive example of good
counterfactual history.
*The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists*
Wood has raised many provocative points worthy of debate.
Recommended.
*CHOICE*
This impressive counterfactual analysis demonstrates that the
course of the Pacific War was not set in stone. Wood demonstrates,
through careful analysis of alternatives actually discussed by
Japan’s leaders, that the decision to go to war was not an exercise
in national suicide. Instead, specific choices closed a window of
opportunity for Japan to have bought more time and might well have
altered fundamentally the war’s conclusion.
*Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado College; author of Patton and
Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century*
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