The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose
The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose
5 Rating(s)
List: $32.50 | Sale: $22.75
Club: $16.25

The Pacific
Hell Was an Ocean Away

Author: Hugh Ambrose

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 23 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/18/2010


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries.

Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!

Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home.

In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of five men who put their lives on the line for our country. To deepen the story revealed in the HBO® miniseries and go beyond it, the book dares to chart a great ocean of enmity known as the Pacific and the brave men who fought.

About The Author

Hugh Ambrose was a noted historian and was a consultant on the documentary Price for Peace, for which Steven Spielberg and Stephen Ambrose were the Executive Producers. He was a consultant to his father on his books, and served as the historical consultant on HBO®'s The Pacific miniseries. Ambrose was also the former vice president of the National WWII Museum and led battlefield tours through Europe and along the Pacific Rim. He died in 2015.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on December 19, 2010

I have to say that I would like Goodreads to change scoring method, because I would give this book about a 4.2 to 4.3 out of 5. It was an interesting format book. No chapters but 5 acts as it is a companion to the HBO mini-series of same namesake. Secondly, the author is the Son of the Late and fame......more

Goodreads review by Kate on September 19, 2016

This is a companion book to a TV series about the war in the Pacific. It settles on a few characters, some of which are familiar to anyone who has read any number of books on the Pacific Theater. It limits itself to Navy and Marine personnel: Sidney Phillips, Vernon 'Mike" Micheel, Sgt. "Manila John......more

Goodreads review by Kenny on June 08, 2010

A companion piece to the HBO miniseries of the same name, one really wishes that Stephen Ambrose (Hugh's father and author of many wonderful books about WWII) had lived to oversee the writing. Hugh's prose is rather sodden and he shies away from really getting close to the characters, as I'd hoped.......more

Goodreads review by Ron on March 28, 2023

Excellent book follows the mini series mostly, adding a lot more detail. & several different men Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by em_wemily on December 28, 2020

3.3 (I'll be diverging from my usual format, since this isn't a fiction, and is somewhat of a textbook of knowledge.) Overall Impression This is a dense, tedious book with an unfortunately disjointed narrative style. Cumbersome writing but really good information if you're looking for reference materi......more


Quotes

Praise for The Pacific

“Doing for the war against Japan what Band of Brothers did for the war against Germany, Ambrose’s history effectively immerses readers in the Good War’s second front.”—Publishers Weekly

“Ambrose’s narrative is convincing...[he] shows the possibilities of readable and complex military history.”—Dr. Allan Millett, Director, Eisenhower Center for American Studies, The National World War II Museum