From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

This is a readable basic history of the War in the Pacific from 1941-1945. Readers get a view of the many battles, from Pearl Harbor and the Fall of the Phillipines, to the U.S. and Allied advantage that began as early as the Battle of Midway in June, 1942 and the landings at Guadalcanal two months later. Then we see the General Douglas MacArthur's long island-hopping campaign that culminated in the U.S. military holding Okinawa and poised to invade before Hiroshima. The author does a nice job of capturing the strategies, and to some extent the lives of the ordinary soldiers that fought the war. This book is aimed at a younger reading audience, but remains a nicely written, informative look for novices as well.

I liked this book because it's the first book I ever read about the war between the U.S. and Japan. It had a lot of good information and the pictures at the beginning of the book captured the key points of the war. Even though it was factual, it was never boring.