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The Pacific (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Hugh Ambrose (Author) (edit contributors)

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In this companion to the HBO(r) miniseries-executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman-Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941... read more

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  • - An accurate account of the Pacific Campaign through the eyes of characters who fought those battles.

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When I look at a front cover of a book the book needs to grip me and make me want to read it. With The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose I felt that intial gripping sensation. You had the great front cover of a war taking place and it made me want to read.

The book is written about five soldiers... read more

When I look at a front cover of a book the book needs to grip me and make me want to read it. With The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose I felt that intial gripping sensation. You had the great front cover of a war taking place and it made me want to read.

The book is written about five soldiers who are unique from one another and are fighting in the Pacific. You find out intelligent information on them all mixed with a fairly fast paced feel which grabs you are the reader and makes you want to explore the book further in detail.

You get to understand graphic moments about bombings but not only that the conditions to which the soldiers had to live in. You understand the PoW camps and see what sort of problems they had there and the detail is exceptional.

We all have seen information about Japan and how they wanted to go to the extreme and take out any American they could and they never cared about how violent they were. This book describes those moments in so much detail I felt sick inside but I wanted to read on because the realism was there which helped me want to carry on until the end.

I felt the way the book was written was very good to a degree. I felt more could have been done with the maps included on some pages. They were weak to look at and at times I felt they served no real purpose to being there.

There was no real guidelines in terms of chapters in the book the first chapter lasts 40 pages and that alone can be a problem to people who like a small break in between. The pictures presented in the book helped bring more realism to the stories being told by the author and when you see some of the images you can relate to the book occasionally.

There was many interviews and plenty of information gathered to help make this book but the author has not written it in the style of his father Stephen Ambrose and I think that is reflected throughout. If you have little knowledge about war time meanings and have little understanding about the Japanese then the book can be confusing.

I felt the text within the book could have been bigger and I felt sometimes there was to much information and some was not needed. I would have loved some information about how the Japanese thought about proceedings even if it was a single person they spoke to at least it might have added some extra information I sometimes felt was missing from key scenes.

There has been a huge series on television with many millions of pounds spent on making this book a classic television series and on television the series is many more times better then the book.

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  • “This is no ordinary war. (Bobby M)”
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  • “You've got to play for the breaks, and when you get one- score! (Bobby M)”
    Neyland
  • “Death isn't hard. Death is easy. (Bobby M)”
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Organizations edit see section history

  • USMC: United States Marine Corps
  • USN: United State Navy
  • IJA: Imperial Japanese Army
  • IJN: Imperial Japanese Navy

First Sentence edit see section history

As the 1930s gave way to the 1940s, the people of the United States thought little of the Empire of Japan.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Hugh Ambrose (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Nal Caliber
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780451230232
Page Count: 489

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: D 767.A46 2010
  • Dewey: 940.5459730922

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  • Band of Brothers

Books That Influenced This Book edit see section history

   
  • With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
  • Helmet for My Pillow

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