EXCELLENT BOOK IN THE PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR SERIES....  Pacific Onslaught concerns itself with build up and execution of Imperial Japans attempt to expand its empire to include materials and fuels needed for a modern military as well as a modern economy. This book is a quick, but comprehensive, overview of the early war in Manchuria and China, as well as the early period against the combined Western allies. It then goes so far as the pushback against Japan in the Solomons, following Japan’s great naval defeat at Midway.