Foreword Introduction Geo-Military Aspects of the Pacific Theater World War II in the Pacific Chronology The Islands Selected Bibliography Index
GORDON L. ROTTMAN has served 26 years in the US Army in Special Forces, airborne infantry, long-range reconnaissance patrol, and military intelligence assignments in the Regular Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve. He began writing military history books in 1984. He is employed by TRW System and Information Technology Group as a special operations forces scenario writer at the Army's Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, LA.
?A source of value for researchers, historians, military history
enthusiasts, and wargamers, this work provides complete information
on the geo-strategic aspects of numerous Pacific islands, and their
role during the war.?-39/45 Magazine
?Rottman has prepared an excellent research tool that will be
invaluable to any serious student of WW II in the Pacific....Thanks
to Rottman, it is now much easier to decipher the vast store of
historical data on WW II still languishing in archives, and to
integrate that information with previous scholarship. Highly
recommended for all university libraries serving programs in
history or anthropology. All levels.?-Choice
?This is a unique book in the literature of the Pacific War,
providing in one place basic information about each island caught
up in that conflagration, including geographic characteristics,
prewar and postwar history, and World War II events as exerienced
by Allied and Japanese sides alike. As such, the volume is a
valuable reference work for Pacific war historians and buffs,
including wargamers, as was intended by the author, who in
encyclopedic fashion has compiled all the relevant data and
information he could find from the wide range of works
consulted.?-The Journal of Military History
"A source of value for researchers, historians, military history
enthusiasts, and wargamers, this work provides complete information
on the geo-strategic aspects of numerous Pacific islands, and their
role during the war."-39/45 Magazine
"Rottman has prepared an excellent research tool that will be
invaluable to any serious student of WW II in the Pacific....Thanks
to Rottman, it is now much easier to decipher the vast store of
historical data on WW II still languishing in archives, and to
integrate that information with previous scholarship. Highly
recommended for all university libraries serving programs in
history or anthropology. All levels."-Choice
"This is a unique book in the literature of the Pacific War,
providing in one place basic information about each island caught
up in that conflagration, including geographic characteristics,
prewar and postwar history, and World War II events as exerienced
by Allied and Japanese sides alike. As such, the volume is a
valuable reference work for Pacific war historians and buffs,
including wargamers, as was intended by the author, who in
encyclopedic fashion has compiled all the relevant data and
information he could find from the wide range of works
consulted."-The Journal of Military History
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