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Phase
1941–1945 CE
The Pacific War intensified after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, though Japan’s war in China had begun earlier. It involved island campaigns, naval battles, jungle warfare, occupation, prisoners of war and the final use of atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The theatre stretched across oceans and societies.
Its importance lies in its geographic scale and the different experiences it contains: sailors, marines, nurses, civilians under occupation, forced labourers and prisoners. The Pacific War also reshaped Asia and accelerated the end of European colonial dominance. Fiction by James Jones, Herman Wouk, Nevil Shute and many later writers uses the Pacific for naval war, captivity, trauma and cultural collision.
Series
The Pacific War Series is a two-book sequence covering the transformation of the Pacific conflict from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway. To Wake the Giant follows diplomacy, Japanese planning, American intelligence failures and the sailors caught in the assault of 7 December 1941;…
Books
Non-Fiction
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
