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Rising Sun, Falling Skies

The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II

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Rising Sun, Falling Skies

By: Jeffrey Cox
Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East - and directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught. It was to be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific.

©2015 Jeffrey Cox (P)2021 Upfront Books Armed Forces Asia Japan Military Naval Forces War Programming
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This author is clear, factual and hits the heart. This is one of the best versions of these events. Bravo!

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This is a fine book but the reading is painfully flawed. It’s not just the Japanese names which are mispronounced, but just about all the South-east Asia geographical names are so mangled as to be almost unrecognisable.

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This is a very good book, but unfortunately the narrator has a tendency of butchering some of the Japanese words. I definitely still recommend it though.

Overall good

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