How can one describe the horrors of the Pacific battles without rendering a bleak and disturbing picture. The author does so impeccably.

That’s all I have to say.

The pre-war historiography here is gibberish lazily researched and written and full of filler. This book is too typical of modern historical narrative cobbled together with an eye towards Hollywood and a plush film contract. Save some money and just read the Wikipedia entry about the event. A scandalous example of publisher and author collusion to bilk a reading public hungry for good history.

A very interesting recount of the people lost in World War II as somewhat a collection of short biographies of those teenage and twenty-something star athletes of the time and a brilliant presentation of the unimaginable horror or war — i.e., so much loss of young lives referred to as “waste.”

It didn’t take long for the author to blame a racist USA for causing Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor. What a waste of a potentially good story. I feel sorry for this writer.

I highly recommend! A real page turner!

Personalizes war in unique way. It takes readers from football fields to the horrors of the Okinawa campaign.