TY - BOOK AU - Chrisp,Peter TI - The War in the Pacific SN - 0739860631 AV - D767 .C48 2004 U1 - 940.54/26 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Austin, TX PB - Raintree KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - Pacific Area N1 - 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; 8.4; 5-8; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 ER -