Rising Sun, Falling Skies
The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II

This book picks up after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and how the Japanese Navy and Army, continued their dominance across the Pacific and really anywhere they wanted to go. The beginning speaks of how MacArthur, dis obey orders and allowed the entire Army air corps to be destroyed. This would have a......more

An intriguing book about an oft forgotten phase in the Pacific War, when Japan invaded the Dutch East Indies and the Japanese still ruled supreme. With a mix of old and obsolete destroyers and cruisers the ABDA command tried to halt the Japanese advance. The author provides a fresh narrative on the......more

Cox offers a readable account of the doomed effort to defend the Dutch, American, and British possessions in the Java Sea area, focusing wholly on the naval-air war. He is at his best in balancing clear accounts of battle with dramatic anecdotes. His analysis is good in terms of the psychology of ce......more