In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and America evolved from an inward-looking nation into a global superpower. McManus, one of our most highly acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor-a rude awakening for a military woefully unprepared for war-to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly desperate Japanese. Yet the majority of fighting and dying in the war against Japan was done not by Marines but by unsung Army soldiers. "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the achievements of the Army ground troops," wrote one officer in the fall of 1943, "whereas the Marines are blown up to the skies." Even today, the Marines are celebrated as the victors of the Pacific, a reflection of a well-deserved reputation for valor. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die "This eloquent and powerful narrative is military history written the way it should be."-James M.
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