Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472810601)

Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East - and directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught. It was to be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific.

Author: Jeffrey Cox
ISBN-10: 1472810600
ISBN-13: 9781472810601
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2015
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.40d