The Pacific war atlas - David Smurthwaite

A history of World War II in the Pacific told through text and maps showing battles, movements of fleets and armed forces, strategies, military and naval campaigns of the Allies and the Japanese Imperial forces. Although mainly dealing with the period 1941-1945, it also covers the pre-war period from 1918 (end of World War I) to 1941. A paperback edition is also available (ISBN 0-11-290548-x).;The author, David Smurthwaite, is Assistant Director of the National Army Museum in London, and a young military historian with a rising reputation. His first book was "Battlefields of the English Civil War". He was subsequently the military consultant to and contributor of all the military history entries to the Everyman Encyclopaedia.;David Smurthwaite's specialist interests are 20th-century military history, in particular World War II and the immediate aftermath. He was editor of and principal contributor to "The Forgotten War in the Far East", a study of allied operations against the Japanese in Burma, Malaysia, New Guinea, and the Pacific, 1941-45. He was a contributor to "Armies of World War II" (Osprey). Recent publications include "Against all Odds: the British Army 1939-1940", and "The British Soldier in Normandy", published to coincide with the 50th D-Day anniversary.