Since the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Allies had been on the defensive, driven back across the Pacific as the Japanese forces overran one country after another. In August 1942, the Allies struck back.
Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox's Morning Star, Midnight Sun is the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War.
Jeffrey recently spoke to The American Magazine about his new book and the Pacific Theater of World War II, which you can read here.