BRUCE GAMBLE is a retired naval flight officer and former historian with the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. The author of six books on the Pacific war, he is also a documentary personality and frequent public speaker. He currently lives in Florida.
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"Drawing on a variety of sources from both sides, the author has
written a detailed reference book that reads like a novel."WWII
HISTORY MAGAZINE
"...Fortress Rabaul opens a broader vista on this under-studied
campaign with its wide research, thoughtful analysis, and gifted
story-teller's panache."
Barrett Tillman, author of Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan,
1942-1945"To most of the reading public, the aerial siege of Rabaul
remains one of the untold stories of the Pacific War. Nobody is
better qualified than Bruce Gamble to relate that lengthy campaign,
beginning with the first 15 months of the conflict. The depth and
variety of his coverage is exceptional: not only the Allied and the
Japanese perspectives, but the personalities and their attendant
feuds; and ultimately the successful air blockade that released the
unstoppable might of an industrialized America to take the war ever
nearer Japan itself."
Col. Walter Boyne, USAF (Ret.), author of Clash of Wings
"This tour de force by Bruce Gamble is an absolute must for anyone
interested in the true story of one of World War II's most
interesting--and most overlooked--battles. The author rivals
Stephen Ambrose with his detailed personal accounts of not only
victory and defeat, but also of the more routine events that entail
quiet pride or--sometimes--suppressed embarrassment."Eric Hammel,
author of Islands of Hell: The U.S. Marines in the Western
Pacific
"Not for the first time, Bruce Gamble has done amazing work
gathering a dazzling array of tiny, little facts, then arranging
them in a big, dazzling story that amazes one's inner historian
even as it breaks one's heart on its way to a triumphal
conclusion."
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