Jeffrey R. Cox
Auteur de Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II (General Military)
Œuvres de Jeffrey R. Cox
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II (General Military) (1602) 92 exemplaires
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942 (2018) 48 exemplaires
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 (2020) 35 exemplaires
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 (2023) 19 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 194
- Évaluation
- 4.3
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- 3
- ISBN
- 14
Given the number of books that have already been written about this campaign, the question must be asked why another is needed. Jeffery Cox’s contribution possesses a number of merits. Foremost among them is the detailed reconstruction it provides of the oftentimes confused naval battles that took place around the islands. These descriptions inform Cox’s often pointed critiques of the people involved on both sides of the battle. In this respect Cox doesn’t leave the reader in any doubt as to what he thinks of his subjects and their responsibility for events.
Yet these assets don’t suffice to explain why Cox felt that another book was needed. His accounts of the battles draw heavily upon the many other works that have already been written about them. There is no original research and little effort to incorporate anything in the way of primary source records. It’s a classic case of an author who went into a room full of books and exited with one more. If Cox brought to that task an exceptional storytelling gift this might have offset this matter, but instead he often gets in the way of his own narrative with efforts at witty asides which typically fall flat. These detract from rather than add to his narrative efforts.
The result is a book that doesn’t really distinguish itself from the ones that preceded it. For anyone new to the subject it provides a useful survey of the naval clashes in the waters surrounding the Solomon Islands. But for those who have already read some of the other excellent works already available about the campaign Cox’s book contains nothing fresh or revelatory. In this respect it is less an addition to our knowledge than Cox’s explanation and commentary on it, one that does little more than provide a careful summary of the battles that defined the shift in Allied and Japanese fortunes in the war in the Pacific.… (plus d'informations)