The Loss of Java

[edwest]

Details about the air battles between the Allies and Japanese. No exact release date. Sometime later this year according to one site.


http://www.nus.edu.sg/nuspress/subjects/history/978-9971-69-513-2.html





Usual disclaimer,
Ed

[Ruy Horta]

Hi Ed!

This book was previously published in dutch.

Het verlies van Java, een kwestie van Air Power.

Very good study.

The author P.C. Boer as written some (definitive) studies on the early air war in the East Indies.

The main theme, the dutch built air bases as a cheap answer to the problem of defending the East Indies, but failed to provide a matching air force and a proper defence for those air bases. As the outer air bases were lost to the Japanese, they provided a spring board to Java, the main dutch bastion.

Once the air attack on Java started, the Japanese had superior numbers and the initiative, quickly dispensing with the remaining air forces in a short war of attrition.

Without air power, Java was untenable.

Highly recommended.

[mars]

Can not find this book at amazon.

[edwest]

Thank you Ruy.



Regards,
Ed

[John Beaman]

Ruy:

Does this book add anything significant to Shores' Bloody Shambles?

[mars]

I believe this books would be more detail-oriented, since Mr Shores' book has to cover the entire theatre, he only devoted one chapter entirely to the battle of Java in his excellent book

[Jim Oxley]

I'll be keeping an eye out for this one. I love books that deal with the early stages of the Pacific war.