{"title":"Ronald H. Spector","description":"Ronald H. Spector is an award-winning scholar of modern military history and has taught at the National War College and the US Army War College. A frequent contributor to scholarly journals, his publications include In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia and After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam. He is professor of history and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University.","products":[{"product_id":"eagle-against-the-sun-paperback","title":"Eagle Against the Sun - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The best book by far on the Pacific War\" (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict. This \"superbly readable, insightful, gripping\" (Washington Post Book World) contribution to WWII history combines impeccable research with electrifying detail and offers provocative interpretations of this brutal forty-four-month struggle. Author and historian Ronald H. Spector reassesses US and Japanese strategy and shows that the dual advance across the Pacific by MacArthur and Nimitz was more a pragmatic solution to bureaucratic, doctrinal, and public relations problems facing the Army and Navy than a strategic calculation. He also argues that Japan made its fatal error not in the Midway campaign but in abandoning its offensive strategy after that defeat and allowing itself to be drawn into a war of attrition. Spector skillfully takes us from top-secret strategy meetings in Washington, London, and Tokyo to distant beaches and remote Asian jungles with battle-weary GIs. He reveals that the US had secret plans to wage unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan months before Pearl Harbor and shows that MacArthur and his commanders ignored important intercepts of Japanese messages that would have saved thousands of lives in Papua and Leyte. Throughout, Spector contends that American decisions in the Pacific War were shaped more often by the struggles between the British and the Americans, and between the Army and the Navy, than by strategic considerations. Spector vividly recreates the major battles, little-known campaigns, and unfamiliar events leading up to the deadliest air raid ever, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the American war in the Pacific and the people and forces that determined its outcome.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367715438815,"sku":"9781982135232","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ug4NJnQ-Qx9781982135232.webp?v=1789113364"},{"product_id":"at-war-at-sea-sailors-and-naval-combat-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a gripping account of one of the most decisive naval battles in history-the 1905 battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and Russians-and ending with the sophisticated missile engagements of the Falklands and in the Persian Gulf, naval historian Ronald Spector explores every facet of the past one hundred years of naval warfare. Drawing from more than one hundred diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews, this is, above all, a masterful narrative of the human side of combat at sea-real stories told from the point of view of the sailors who experienced it. Exhaustively researched and fascinating in detail, \u003ci\u003eAt War at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental history of the men, the ships, and the battles fought on the high seas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Superb . . . Spector's account provides evocative and fresh perspectives on cultures, technologies and innovations that influenced sailors' lives and shaped naval warfare.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Monumental . . . Many books have recorded the history of the United States Navy, but few have meshed that history with that of all other major navies-an unusual comparative technique that brings into often startling relief the virtues and flaws of our own navy.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368239628511,"sku":"9780140246018","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lDZbHUuumG9780140246018.webp?v=1789125086"},{"product_id":"advice-and-support-the-early-years-1941-1960-paperback","title":"Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe present volume describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate postwar years, and the advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Its scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a background of relevant military and political developments. The author enjoyed access to the official records of the period and examined personal papers, interviews, other documentary sources, and miscellaneous published materials. Useful not only as a study of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent of national policy, this volume is a fitting introduction to the overall study of the conflict in Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368938733791,"sku":"9781410220462","price":42.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ARXlROiy2O9781410220462.webp?v=1789135907"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ronald-h-spector.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}