Tower of Skulls
2020 book by Richard B. Frank
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Tower of Skulls: A History of The Asia-Pacific War July 1937-May 1942 is a 2020 nonfiction book written by American military historian Richard B. Frank. It is the first volume released of a planned trilogy covering the Pacific Theater of the Second World War.[1] The full text is divided into 18 chapters. This volume recounts the first five years of the Second Sino-Japanese War starting with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident up until just before the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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| Author | Richard B. Frank |
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| Cover artist | Chris Welch |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication date | 2020 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 751 |
| ISBN | 978-1-324-00210-9 |
Background
The book's title comes from a quote in a letter written by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore in 1938 to the Japanese poet Yonejirō Noguchi stating "You are building your conception of an Asia which would be raised on a tower of skulls."[2]
Reception
Naval War College Review,[3] US Naval Institute,[4] The New York Review of Books,[5] and the Literary Review[6] published positive reviews.
