This account of the course of World War II in the Asia Pacific theatre is by the faculty of West Point, the US military academy. The carefully researched, chronological material is underpinned by US official and other records. American perspectives fifty years on include insights into the background of the conflict and the military theories and personalities it involved. The appendix includes official US and Japanese documents. Indexed. The West Point Atlas for the Second World War: Asia and the Pacific complements this volume.