The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific left a tremendous scar on the face of humanity that it had never experienced in the existence of civilization. Journalist and TV Commentator and Author Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard retells of the turning point of WWII in the Pacific and intense moves to defeating Japanese imperial military’s aggression upon the islands and lands of Asia and Pacific, which they invaded and occupied since 1931 and ten years later in 1941 with the strike on Pearl Harbor prompted the United States to enter into the war. But inspiration of the writing about this part of WWII was a disturbing comment made by Reverand Jeremiah Wright Jr. who was the pastor of Barak Obama shortly five days after September 11 that made mention of the most horrific events in American history that included Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The sixth book by O’Reilly in a series that have examined the most pivotal events and individuals of history, he along with Dugard re-examines with an objective lens on the events beginning from September 1944 on the islands of Peleliu and by October in the Philippines at Leyte Gulf to the final outcome of the war in August 1945. O’Reilly speaks with sheer honesty and sums of why this part of history is still important and worth retelling, “The United States defeated the Japanese empire is vital to understand because the issues of that war are still being processed throughout the world today” (prologue).The book objectively examines the effects of war on civilians and soldiers and leaders and countries and O’Reilly and Dugard writes of a history that is slowly fading into the collective memory of those who lived through the war and generations that followed that were taught or retold this part of history. With the parallels of history in mind, the memory of the war by the thousands that were involved that were not easily retold in a matter of days or months due to traumatic events or classified information. It would take years of interviews, diaries and journals, or visually through illustrations and photographs that would be disclosed to the public and various books published thereafter. Although this is not the first book or sources to write of the major events of the last year of the war that led to August 1945, many are recommended and listed at the end of the book and mentioned within the passages such as John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”; others not noted but also worth reading and referencing that relate to the war, Iris Chang’s “Rape of Nanking,” James Bradley’s “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Flyboys: A True Story of Courage”, Herbert Bix’s “Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan” or autobiography or biography of those responsible for the technological advances that were used to end the war, J. Robert Oppenheimer “American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Matthew J. Sherwin and Paul Tibbets’s “The Tibbets Story,” there are many more. In essence, the book contains an immense amount of detail within concise measure where one may understand the extent of the war. However, what may have also been included within the content of the book was a bit of background history to the origins of Japan’s rise as an imperial power and the path towards invasion on Asia, especially China that pre-dates 1931 and 1945 and an event that directly relates to the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894-1895. And in addition, an event that also includes the boundaries of China in Manchuria when one of the last battles of the war is fought between the Soviet Union and Japan in 1945.Nevertheless, this is a book for recommended reading.