Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 1) United States Local Government Oil is still king

Oil is still king

left law enforcement to escape the horrors of the kid crime division

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines

With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 1) United States Local Government Oil is still kingWinner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of historyand a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U. S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that