The Miami Valley School Library

The War in the Pacific /

Chrisp, Peter.

The War in the Pacific / Peter Chrisp. - Austin, TX : Raintree, c2004. - 64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm. - The World Wars .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.

Pearl Harbor -- Why war came -- Japanese conquests -- Striking back -- The battle of Midway -- Home fronts -- U.S. offensives -- The island campaign -- Attacking Japan -- Atomic bombs -- Victory and defeat.

Horn Book, April 2004

Photographs, maps, and text describe World War II in the Pacific theater, covering the events that led to war, the major battles, the home fronts, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the relations between the U.S. and Japan in the decades that followed.

8.4 5-8 Follett Library Resources

0739860631

2003000920

D767 / .C48 2004

940.54/26