Books by Ronald H. Spector and Complete Book Reviews
Sy M. Kahn, Author, Ronald H. Spector, Author University of Illinois Press $26.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-252-01858-9
Kahn's diary marvelously captures the daily grind and abrupt excitements of the war, and from an unusual angle. A bespectacled, cultured young New Yorker of delicate sensibilities (``I was infinitely more comfortable with a book or violin in my...
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Spector (Eagle Against the Sun; After Tet) has penned a fascinating account of naval combat from the 1905 engagement between Russia and Japan at Tsushima to the modern actions in the Persian Gulf. This is not just another blow-by-blow narrative of...
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Ronald H. Spector, Author . Random $26.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-375-50915-5
Americans considered World War II over in August 1945, but in this enthralling sequel to Eagle Against the Sun
, historian Spector recounts the brutal postwar conflicts inside former Japanese conquests. Although hailed in American media as China'
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Ronald H. Spector, Author Vintage Books USA $18.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-394-74101-7
A historian at the Army Center for Military History, Spector concentrates on the problem of command in the Southern Pacific theaters, the rivalries between the various U.S. armed services and the problem of allocating resources. PW praised his...
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Ronald H. Spector, Author Free Press $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-930380-1
Spector ( Eagle Against the Sun ) maintains that the months following the Tet offensive (January and February 1968) illuminated the true nature of the war in Vietnam and largely determined its course during the five years that followed. In '68 both...
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