Tower of Skulls

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Tower of Skulls: A History of The Asia-Pacific War July 1937-May 1942
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AuthorRichard B. Frank
Cover artistChris Welch
LanguageEnglish
GenreNonfiction
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2020
Publication placeUnited States
Pages751
ISBN 978-1-324-00210-9

Tower of Skulls: A History of The Asia-Pacific War July 1937-May 1942 is a 2020 nonfiction book written by American military historian Richard B. Frank. It is the first volume released of a planned trilogy covering the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. [1] The full text is divided into 18 chapters. This volume recounts the first five years of the Second Sino-Japanese War starting with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident up until just before the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Contents

Background

The book's title comes from a quote in a letter written by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore in 1938 to the Japanese poet Yonejirō Noguchi stating "You are building your conception of an Asia which would be raised on a tower of skulls." [2]

Reception

Naval War College Review, [3] US Naval Institute, [4] The New York Review of Books, [5] and the Literary Review [6] published positive reviews.

References

  1. ↑ LiVecche, Marc (2020-12-16). "A Conversation with Richard Frank on Tower of Skulls and World War II". Providence Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  2. ↑ Frank, Richard (2020). Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War July 1937-May 1942 (1st ed.). New york: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. XI. ISBN   978-0-393-54136-6.
  3. ↑ Holmes, James (2022). "Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937–May 1942". Naval War College Review. 75 (1).
  4. ↑ Symonds, Craig (June 2020). "Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume 1: July 1937–May 1942". US Naval Institute.
  5. ↑ Lenaberg, Jerry. "a book review by Jerry Lenaburg: Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937–May 1942". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  6. ↑ Murfett, Malcolm (2024-02-07). "Leaping into the Abyss". Literary Review. Retrieved 2024-02-07.


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