| Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II Contributor(s): Cox, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472810600 ISBN-13: 9781472810601 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Naval - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 940.542 |
| Series: General Military |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.50 lbs) 504 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East - and directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught. It was to be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific. |