"Eagle Against the Sun" by Ronald Spector

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"Ronald H. Spector, in Eagle Against the Sun, provides a concise historical overview of the war between the United States and Japan in World War II. Spector is an American historian, teaching at the University of Alabama, and a major in the Marine Reserves, having served on active duty as a military historian during the invasion of Grenada. It is not surprising, then, to find that he takes a decidedly American perspective on the war with Japan:


So the United States had done the impossible. It had waged war simultaneously on two fronts, separated by thousands of miles, and had prevailed. . . . In the end, it was superior American industrial power and organizational ability which had succeeded (560).


After all, the United States did win the war, so it is..."

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