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Article: Soldiers' stories: New looks at Eisenhower, Pacific War.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- September 5, 2002
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Byline: Calvin L. Christman
_``Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life'' by Carlo D'Este; Henry Holt ($35)
_``The War With Japan: The Period of Balance, May 1942-October 1943'' by H.P. Willmott; Scholarly Resources ($17.95 paperback)
Despite the passage of nearly 60 years since the end of World War II, fascination with the conflict has not abated. Two recent books, quite different in subject and scope, deserve attention. The first, penned by British historian H.P. Willmott, is ``The War With Japan,'' a slender (180 pages) synthesis of the latest research on and analysis of the first two years of the Pacific War. Expertly crafted and engagingly written, ...