I just finished Empires on the Pacific by Robert Smith Thompson. Anyone else have a chance to read this book? I'm trying to form an opinion and can't really do it on my own. http://www.militaryink.com/books/2003/january/0465085768.htm [ 28. March 2003, 11:21 PM: Message edited by: Knight Templar ]
Knight, I have read the book a very interesting read with an interesting thesis on the cause of the start of the war in the pacific. If you liked that you should try: G Kennedy - 'Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East 1933-1939' This offers the thesis that anglo-american relations in the far east conditioned the way the war was fought and why it was fought. a very good read.