Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33

This new stand alone release based on the legendary War in the Pacific from 2 by 3 Games adds significant improvements and changes to enhance game play, improve realism, and increase historical accuracy. With dozens of new features, new art, and engine improvements, War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition brings you the most realistic and immersive WWII Pacific Theater wargame ever!

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Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33

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I found this when I was shopping for some thing to read on amazon and after a few hours of reading, I decided to bring it to your attention :

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FY ... P9Y82F7YVP

It's quite enjoyable and accurately predictive with Japanese navy depicted as a well trained but smaller naval force against a rising juggernaut of an enemy.

Again a very enjoyable read.

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My dad has that book, big fan of it too from what he tells me.


I'm still trying to find a war book that surpasses "Red Storm Rising" though.
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Does that work as a Kindle? In other words, are there a lot of maps or pictures that would not translate well to Kindle?

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There is a book about Hector C. Bywater's life: Visions of Infamy by William H Honan. Very interesting book as well.

The work before the one linked to above was called
"Sea Power in the Pacific" which started looking at the balance of power between the US and Japan.

He worked for British Intel before WWI spying on German naval buildup.
Between the wars, he was one of the world's foremost Naval Experts, writing for publications on both sides of the Atlantic and even conned the Italian Dictator Mussolini, into allowing him to review his fleet.

He also wrote a fictional book based on his spying activites: "Strange Intelligence".


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What is the overall opinion these days on Shattered Sword?
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ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

I found this when I was shopping for some thing to read on amazon and after a few hours of reading, I decided to bring it to your attention :

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FY ... P9Y82F7YVP

It's quite enjoyable and accurately predictive with Japanese navy depicted as a well trained but smaller naval force against a rising juggernaut of an enemy.

Again a very enjoyable read.

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I never read that book but back in the 1990's I read Bywater: The Man Who Invented The Pacific War. A very interesting man indeed. I recall it was an excellent read - perhaps another tome that I need to dust off and re-read now...


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ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

What is the overall opinion these days on Shattered Sword?
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One of (if not the) best World War II book I have ever read and imo the blueprint for the way such books should be written.

I can't imagine playing a game as in-depth as this and not reading the following (which in my humble opinion should be required naval reading).

Kaigun (Evans and Peattie)
Rising Sun, Falling Skies (Cox)
The Sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse (Middlebrook and Mahoney)
Shattered Sword (Parschal and Tully)
Guadalcanal (Frank)
Rising Sun (Toland)
The Carriers (Reynolds)

Not found a decent book yet on Pearl Harbor... any suggestions?


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Sorry not much to suggest. Apart from a few "broad overview" type things that I've now forgotten, and Shattered Sword I haven't read much on WWII.

I too really liked Shattered Sword and found it to be astoundingly well-documented and thorough. One of the last books I can remember that I literally just could not put down and scoured through in a few days, which is unusual given how dry and detail-packed it is.
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