Island Hopping across the Pacific Theater in World War II: The History of America's Victorious Leapfrogging Strategy against Imperial Japan

*Includes pictures
*Includes accounts of the fighting
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
The waters of the Pacific Ocean - stretching deep blue under the tropical sun, or scourged by typhoons - provided World War II's most far-flung battlefield. Two of the world's premier mid 20th century maritime powers, the United States of American and the Empire of Japan, grappled for supremacy across that vast expanse.
By the time the Battle of Midway was over in June...