Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942 by Frank, Richard B.
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942 by Frank, Richard B.

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the...
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942 by Frank, Richard B.

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

CHF 62.45
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942 by Frank, Richard B.

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

CHF 62.45
Author: Richard B. Frank
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world's population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism. Japan's onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. From just two nation states with real sovereignty, Thailand and Japan, and two with compromised sovereignty, China and Mongolia, the region today encompasses at least nineteen major sovereign nations. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly describes in exquisite detail the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies.

Beginning with China's long-neglected years of heroic, costly resistance, Tower of Skulls explodes outward to campaigns including Singapore, the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, India, and Burma, as well as across the Pacific to Pearl Harbor. These pages cast penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war. They feature not just battles, but also the sweeping political, economic, and social effects of the war, and are graced with a rich tapestry of individual characters from top-tier political and military figures down to ordinary servicemen, as well as the accounts of civilians of all races and ages.

In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary evidence to tell an epic story that gave birth to the world we live in now.



Author: Richard B. Frank
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 768
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9781324002109


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2020
Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 102
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020

About the Author
Frank, Richard B.: - Richard B. Frank is an internationally acclaimed historian of the Asia-Pacific War. He was an aerorifle platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam and is the author of Guadalcanal and Downfall. He is a member of the Board of Presidential Counselors of the National WWII Museum and lives in Annandale, Virginia.
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