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GRAVEYARDS OF THE PACIFIC: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll
Vivid Book on World War II Pacific Battle Sites by World’s Top Oceanographer
WASHINGTON—Published in the 60th anniversary year of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, an authoritative book on that infamous battle and others in the Pacific has been written by noted oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Robert D. Ballard, with Michael Hamilton Morgan. The foreword to the book is by historian Stephen Ambrose, another National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence.
GRAVEYARDS OF THE PACIFIC: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll (National Geographic Books, ISBN 0-7922-6366-9, May 2001, $45) covers all the major World War II Pacific battle sites, including Midway, Guadalcanal and Truk Lagoon, and contains rare archival photographs shown in large format. Almost one-third of the book is devoted to Pearl Harbor.
This compelling overview of the Pacific War begins with Ballard’s search for an elusive midget submarine sunk just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor and ends with the American nuclear test on Bikini Atoll, where captured German and Japanese craft were scuttled. Firsthand accounts of numerous Ballard explorations in the Pacific are intermingled with stories and eyewitness accounts of the Pacific conflict.
In this definitive book, illustrated with more than 150 photographs, Ballard, a pioneering marine scientist best known for his discovery of the Titanic, succeeds in recreating a defining period in American history.
Said legendary journalist/anchorman Walter Cronkite, “Bob Ballard is the preeminent pioneer in truly deep-sea exploration.”
Pearl Harbor also is commemorated in an upcoming children’s book from National Geographic. In REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR: Japanese and American Survivors Tell Their Stories (ISBN 0-7922-6690-0, May 2001, $18.95), veterans of both sides recall their memories of Dec. 7, 1941. These first-person narratives give insights into both the Japanese and American points of view of the event that propelled the United States into World War II.
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March 2001
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