The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America

by James Campbell

Book Overview

From the acclaimed World War II writer and author of The Ghost Mountain Boys , an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front.? In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it "as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." For the Americans,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307461211
• ISBN13: 9780307461216
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"