"Empires on the Pacific" by Thompson

~~Knight Templar~~ · #1 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2003, 03:31 PM

I just finished Empires on the Pacific by Robert Smith Thompson.
Anyone else have a chance to read this book? I'm trying to form an opinion and can't really do it on my own.
http://www.militaryink.com/books/200...0465085768.htm

[ 28. March 2003, 11:21 PM: Message edited by: Knight Templar ]

Mahross · #2 (**permalink**) April 3rd, 2003, 08:51 AM

Knight, I have read the book a very interesting read with an interesting thesis on the cause of the start of the war in the pacific. If you liked that you should try:
G Kennedy - 'Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East 1933-1939'
This offers the thesis that anglo-american relations in the far east conditioned the way the war was fought and why it was fought. a very good read.