To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593186886)

From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War

"Brilliant [and] riveting... a truly great book."--Gen. David Petraeus - "Triumphant [and] compelling."--Richard Frank - "McManus is one of the best--if not the best--World War II historians working today."--World War II magazine

The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months--or years--of fight does the enemy have left. John C. McManus, winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, concludes his magisterial series, described by the Wall Street Journal as being "as vast and splendid as Rick Atkinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberation Trilogy," with this brilliant final volume.

On the island of Luzon, a months-long stand-off between US and Japanese troops finally breaks open, as American soldiers push into Manila, while paratroopers and amphibious invaders capture nearby Corregidor. The Philippines are soon liberated, and Allied strategists turn their eyes to China, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Japanese home islands themselves. Readers will walk in the boots of American soldiers and officers, braving intense heat, rampant disease, and a by-now suicidal enemy, determined to kill as many opponents as possible before defeat, and they will encounter Japanese soldiers faced with the terrible choice between capitulation or doom. At the same time, this outstanding narrative lays bare the titanic ego and ambition of the Pacific War's most prominent general, Douglas MacArthur, and the complex challenges he faced in Japan's unconditional surrender and America's lengthy occupation.

Author: John C. McManus
ISBN-10: 0593186885
ISBN-13: 9780593186886
Publisher: Dutton Caliber
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.54w x 1.59d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2022 pg. 20
Publishers Weekly 02/13/2023
Library Journal 04/21/2023 pg. 1