The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941 - June 1942

xix, [5], 240 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs of officers and seven maps. "John B. Lundstrom offers the first detailed analysis of the fundamental strategies employed by Japan and the U.S. in the South Pacific from January to June 1942, including Japanese equivocation regarding advances in the South Pacific and the vigorous actions of Admiral Ernest L. King to reinforce the area in spite of the presidential decision to concentrate American efforts on Europe and problem of Germany."