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    Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Pacific: Great Battles for Boys

    By Joe Giorello

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    About this ebook

    Does your son play video games for hours but dreads reading? Does he think history is just a bunch of boring old facts? What if you could give him the excitement of screen time and at the same time spark his love of reading and history?

    Now you can, with these exciting tales of World War II written especially for reluctant readers. 

    In his highly acclaimed middle-school class "Great Battles for Boys," author Joe Giorello has ignited a love of military history in hundreds of boys. Now with this engaging non-fiction book written specifically for boys ages 8-14, your son can experience that same thrilling adventure in learning. 

    In this episode of the best-selling history series, the story opens with the Flying Tigers, those wild American soldiers fighting Japan before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the deadly surprise attack on Hawaii, the battles storm across the Pacific in the lethal "island hopping" military strategy that brought Victory Over Japan.

    • How did the Battle of Wake Island turn into "The Alamo of the Pacific"?
    • Who figured out the first fighter planes take off from ships in the middle of the ocean?
    • Why was the Doolittle Raid considered a suicide mission?
    • How did the young American men survive while fighting on strange and hostile islands such as Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Iwo Jima?

    Filled with historic photographs, maps, and notable biographies of soldiers, Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Europe explores the leaders, weapons, and strategies that toppled the Axis Powers. Each chapter also ends with suggestions for further age-appropriate books and movies that the whole family can watch.

    If your son likes action-packed accounts, authentic details, and short but exciting chapters, then he'll love this book. And he'll never see history as boring again!

    Buy Great Battles for Boys today and march into the frontlines of history!

    "This book should be in school libraries everywhere. It is a treasure trove of information that is engagingly written that makes one feel they are in a great classroom with a great instructor sharing his knowledge in a fun way." —Top 10 Amazon Reviewer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoe Giorello
    Release dateMar 12, 2019
    ISBN9781947076037
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    Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Pacific: Great Battles for Boys
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    Joe Giorello

    Joe Giorello teaches a highly popular middle-grade class for boys called “Great Battles," based on this book series. Growing up in a large Italian family in Queens, New York, Joe listened to firsthand stories of relatives who served in World War II and Vietnam. Their experiences sparked his love of history and spurred him to study military history. He’s since acquired a vast library of books that stretch from ancient battles to modern warfare. As both a teacher and an author , Joe’s goal is to show young people that “freedom isn’t free” and that history is anything but boring. When he’s not teaching about historic battles, weapons, and warfare, Joe can be found playing blues around the Seattle area with his band, The Fabulous Roof Shakers. He enjoys hearing from readers. Contact him at his website, www.greatbattlebooks.com, and at the Facebook page for Great Battles: https:// www.facebook.com/greatbattles

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    • 5/5
      Amazing book! I enjoyed a lot. My only question is why they didn’t include the battle of Leyte Gulf, otherwise, it’s a great book
    • 4/5
      Great Battles for Boys: WWII Pacific, by Joe Giorello is a broad look at the history of the Second World War in the Pacific broken down into separate chapters covering individual battles. There are two things I really like about this book; first, it is historically accurate. That is so important when dealing with such a complex subject. The information is given in a well thought out manner that makes it easy for anyone to enjoy and understand. The author paints a clear picture of what is going on in each battle.The second thing, which I love, is that the stories, although complete in themselves, do leave you wanting, and Joe Giorello has made that easy by referencing other books, films and best of all, website links, to more in-depth information. That will certainly appeal to younger readers for whom the ‘net is everything.I really enjoyed reading this book, and even though I’ve read hundreds of books covering this topic, I learned even more from Joe’s well-researched work. I can easily recommend it to anyway, and don’t let the ‘Boys’ in the title scare you away. It is great for adults too.