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The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In)

By: Hugh Ambrose
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
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Some years ago Hugh Ambrose embarked on a research project into the war in the Pacific with his father Stephen Ambrose, the celebrated author of BAND OF BROTHERS. Weaving together hundreds of testimonies from WWII veterans they built a massive archive of primary source material - oral histories, diaries, letter collections, memoirs, photos and military reports - documenting the personal battles these young man fought, and the sweep of the larger conflict in the Pacific. The project coincided with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman expressing an interest in making a television drama about this region of the Second World War and the miniseries was born. When Stephen Ambrose died in 2002, Hugh undertook to finish the project and write this book.

Covering nearly four years of combat, this volume offers a unique historical perspective on the war against Japan. These are the true stories of the men who put their lives on the line for their country, who were dispatched to the other side of the world to fight an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender; men who suffered hardship and humiliation in POW camps; men who witnessed casualties among soldiers and civilians alike; and men whose medals came at a shocking price - a price paid in full by all.

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"A brutal account ... for those who want more of the nightmare of those foxholes after ten hours of The Pacific, this book is for you."
"Extremely good ... he lets his soldiers tell the story. Through those young men we are given an uncompromising picture of the war, which, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, most Americans believed to be their most important engagement. The TV series might offer us a glimpse of that distant conflict in the Pacific. Hugh Ambrose's book gives us the greatestgeneration in the round."
"A compelling book which affords Pacific veterans the testament they deserve." (Julian Fleming)
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Quite approachable for a listener - new to audio history. I have not seen the TV saga of this but the written work was very useful. The reader was fine -easy to listen to and my only real criticism is that occasionally you could feel the word processor at work - the cut and paste - that does not mesh with the rest of the narrative. But it was worth listening to. So - yes - we could use more work in this genre. Please - could we find out what life was like for the Japanese or the Germans, the Baltic States, the Russians, Norwegians etc. during the same period?

Making sense of history in the Pacific

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This is very intresting book give you a new insight into the pacific war and the men who frought it and what they went though well wourth reading.

The only down side is that sometimes they swich between people and it can take you a second wo notes that this has happened but other than that great book

Good war book

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watched the series and wow this book tells so much more of what these hero's went through.

Great book

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The brutality of the Pacific war has almost now equal... every single one of the vets is a hero ! The world needs more John Basilones and less Trumps

The greatest generation

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Good story. Annoyed increasingly by narrator pronunciation: for-waard etc. put me off somewhat an interesting idea to follow individual people through the war. It does mean there are gaps and didn't like the way the Japanese - Japs - were always described. But that is what you get following the time.

Good but not brilliant.

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