Tower of Skulls, Richard B. Frank
Tower of Skulls, Richard B. Frank
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Tower of Skulls
A History of the Asia-Pacific War • July 1937–May 1942

Author: Richard B. Frank

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 26 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/03/2020

Synopsis

In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies. In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary evidence to tell an epic story that gave birth to the world we live in now.

About Richard B. Frank

Richard B. Frank was an aerorifle platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division in the Vietnam War. His books include Guadalcanal, winner of the General William Greene Award from the Marine Corps, and Downfall, winner of the Harry S. Truman Book Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Boudewijn on August 25, 2023

Tower of Skulls offers a fresh perspective, emphasizing China's role and diving deep into a specific timeframe that perhaps is often overlooked in other works spanning the entire Pacific War. Its profound exploration of China's role in the conflict sheds light on China's resilience, struggles, and p......more

Goodreads review by Grouchy on February 29, 2020

I would give this book 6 stars if I could. It will truly change how you think about WW2. The interaction of China and Russia to the Pacific War and the way Japan mostly blundered into a war they knew they couldn’t win was eye opening to learn. Can’t wait for the next book.......more

Goodreads review by Peter on March 16, 2020

“Tower of Skulls: a history of the Asia-Pacific War, July, 1937-May, 1942,” by Richard B. Frank (Norton, 2020). Frank has already established himself as a superb historian of World War II, with “Guadalcanal” and “Downfall: the end of the Imperial Japanese Empire.” But this book, the first volume of......more

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