Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Pacific

"Great Battles for Boys" takes young readers to the front lines of history's greatest fights. Boys find out which weapons, strategies, and military leaders won victory—or suffered defeat. History will never look the same again.

This episode of the best-selling series opens with the Flying Tigers, those wild American soldiers secretly fighting Japan before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the deadly surprise attack on Hawaii, the battles begin to storm across the Pacific in the lethal "island hopping" military strategy that earned American its hard-won Victory Over Japan.

Each chapter features dramatic true stories with historic photos, maps, and other amazing images. There's also a movie list for each battle so the whole family can join in the learning.

Sure to capture the attention of even the most reluctant readers, "Great Battles for Boys" shows all the blood, sweat, and tears of the world's most epic fights. Young readers will never doubt it when people say, "Freedom isn't free."

• How did the Battle of Wake Island turn into "The Alamo of the Pacific"?
• Who figured out fighter planes could take off from ships in the middle of the ocean?
• Why was the Doolittle Raid considered a suicide mission?
• How did the young American men fighting on strange islands such as Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Iwo Jima learn to survive?