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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Christmas presents
 
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Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
I got The Fleet at Flood Tide by James D. Hornfischer. Sadly, this one wasn't up to the standard set by his previous books - it's his first attempt to talk about an entire campaign within the Pacific War rather than an individual battle or series of battles for the same objective, and I don't think he does well with the larger scope. Still a great book if you're really interested in the Marianas Islands campaign, but I think Hornfischer would have been better off restricting the book's focus to just that series of battles rather than trying to cover that and the strategic bombing and Okinawa and Iwo Jima and the atomic bomb and the occupation of Japan.

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