This selection of outstanding works from war chronicles and histories published in various magazines over the fifty years since the end of the war re-examines the course and reality of the Pacific War. The entirety of the Pacific War, told through "war chronicles." How did the Japanese fight? Contents: Admiral Shigetaro Shimada's Opening of War Diary East Wind, Rain - As a Spy in Pearl Harbor Miraculous Success: The Pearl Harbor Attack One Hour Above Pearl Harbor Sinking of the Prince of Wales 3,507 Dead - Yamashita's Malay Operation The Iron Lions Attack Ferociously The Philippines Conquest Operation The Oath Under the Walls of Bandung - Java Landing Operation Army Airborne Unit Descends on Palembang The Kato Hayabusa Fighter Squadron Daylight Battle off Surabaya Sinking of the Hermes - Indian Ocean Operation The 99 Carrier Bomber War Chronicle - The Battle of the Coral Sea The Fateful Battle of Midway Reversal! The First Strike on the Akagi Tomonaga's Torpedo Squadron Attacks Guadalcanal Naval Battle - The First Solomon Islands Battle Flames of Wings Over Tulagi The Battleship Kongo's Bombardment of Guadalcanal Victory in the South Pacific Naval Battle The Destroyer Yudachi's Valiant Fight - The Third Solomon Islands Battle Complete Victory: The Night Battle of Lunga Point The Triumphant Song of the Sinking of the Carrier Wasp Escape from the Hellish Front Lines - Guadalcanal Withdrawal Operation A Great Star Falls - Memories of Isoroku Yamamoto The Red Snow of Attu - The Aleutian Operation Chronicle The Conditions of a Commander Seen in the "Kiska Withdrawal" The Man Who Sank Kennedy A Dialogue Between Japanese and American Battalion Commanders on the Munda-Arundel Battle The Bloody Battle of the Bela-Lavella Strait with Oxygen Torpedoes The Survivor's Account of the Tarawa Suicide Attack The Razor Sharpness of the Rabaul Air Battle "Kotetsu" The Siege of Rabaul Without Wings The Whole Picture of the Burma Operation The Valiant Fight of Major Kanemitsu, Commander of the Laem Defense Unit The Moonlit Path The Dream of the Indian Invasion Shattered - The Tragic Imphal Operation Self-Disembowelment in New Guinea The Death Offensive of Aitape - The New Guinea Front Zero Results: The Battle of the Philippine Sea The End of the New Carrier Taiho The Hellish Picture: Saipan Island The Naval Journalist's Bamboo Spear Incident Pacific War Chronology This is the complete edition of "The Pacific War" in two volumes, edited by Bungeishunju, first published in December 1991. The upper volume includes an obi (sash). There is little yellowing, and there are no stains, writing, or library stamps. Please consider purchasing, understanding that this is an old book from 33 years ago.