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Military historian John McManus explores the Army’s Pacific War in new book

St. Louis on the Air

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What's a Little Bit Different About World War II?

The trilogy is looking a little bit more deeply into into the larger human experience of, you know, what it's like for an engineer to be building an airfield on some remote island. It also looks at how african americans who are part of the pacific too, but aren't really treated equally. And so these are issues that i've been very excited to elf into, because i have not always either had the time or a, or it hasn't fit the scope of some of my earlier works tit were very much like combat focused.

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