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<p><b>“Both a serious work of history . . . and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative.”—</b>San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. <b>Pacific Crucible</b> tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.</p> <p>This dramatic narrative, relying predominantly on eyewitness accounts and primary sources, is laced with riveting details of heroism and sacrifice on the stricken ships and planes of both navies. At the war’s outset, Japan’s pilots and planes enjoyed a clear-cut superiority to their American counterparts, but there was a price to be paid. Japanese pilots endured a lengthy and grueling training in which they were disciplined with baseball bats, often suffering broken bones; and the production line of the Zero— Japan’s

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Author

Ian W Toll; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393083170

Category

history

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities

Rating

4.8 / 5 (6,106 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14