Osprey Publishing (uk) Rising sun, falling skies: the disastrous java sea campaign of world war ii, paperback/jeffrey cox

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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States.

After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive.

Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered du.