Synopses & Reviews
Published in the 60th anniversary year of the infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor,
Graveyards of the Pacific is Dr. Robert Ballards compelling survey of the major WWII Pacific battlefields and graveyards, including Midway, Guadalcanal, and Truk Lagoon. This authoritative overview of the Pacific war begins with a thrilling account of Ballards search for an elusive midget sub sunk just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and ends with the American nuclear tests on Bikini Island, where captured German and Japanese craft were scuttled.
Graveyards of the Pacific features rare archival photographs, firsthand accounts of Ballards explorations, and the stories of survivors and eyewitnesses to the Pacific conflicts. In this lavishly illustrated and definitive book, Ballard, a pioneering marine scientist and explorer best known for his discovery of the Titanic, has succeeded in recreating a definitive period in American history.
Review
"Bob Ballard is one of the great explorers of the age. He is not only a great explorer, but a gifted storyteller and an evangelist for science." John F. Lehman
About the Author
MICHAEL HAMILTON MORGAN is a novelist and former diplomat based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since 1990 he has advised and directed the Pegasus Prize for Literature, an international literary prize sponsored by ExxonMobil that brings foreign works of fiction to English-language readers.