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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. xvii, 402 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. LCCN 77077933 ISBN 9780870210976 0870210971 LC D777 .D84 Dewey 940.545952 OCLC 760608642 ; Green cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; maps on endpapers ; For almost 20 years, more than 200 reels of microfilmed Japanese naval records remained in the custody of the U.S. Naval History Division, virtually untouched. This unique book draws on those sources and others to tell the story of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of the Japanese. Former Marine Corps officer and Asian scholar Paul Dull focuses on the major surface engagements of the war--Coral Sea, Midway, the crucial Solomons campaign, and the last-ditch battles in the Marianas and Philippines. Also included are detailed track charts and a selection of Japanese photographs of major vessels and actions. ; ownership stamp on front endpaper of Edward William Girard (1930-2020), a Boeing engineer and Rockwell Missile Systems Division operational analysis manager that served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was instrumental in proposing national re-emphasis on maritime strategy in the wake of the Israeli Six-Day War in 1967 and earlier, in 1961, the use of war games to function as pseudo-experiments, producing data for analysis ; Contents: Japan goes to war -- Establishment of the original defense perimeter -- Coral Sea, Midway and the Aleutians -- Overextension of t he defense perimeter -- Defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy ; FINE/FINE. Book.