The Eagle Against the Sun

This military history recounts the Pacific war between the United States and Japan from 1941 to 1945. Spector follows strategy and operations on both sides: the attack on Pearl Harbor, the campaigns in the Philippines, the Solomons, and the Central Pacific, the China-Burma-India theatre, submarine warfare, and the final assault on the home islands. He attends to logistics, intelligence, race, and the limits of each command's planning, using American and Japanese sources. The book is a campaign history of one theatre of the Second World War, not a biography of a single admiral or general.

Three-quarter bound in black spine title blocked cloth with a black cloth front board screen-printed and blocked with a red and white design by Neil Gower. Frontispiece and 32 pages of black & white plates, 3 maps. Red endpapers printed in black with a map. Black slipcase printed with a wrap-around monochrome photo.