Tower of Skulls

Archival Summary & Scope

Award-winning historian Richard B. Frank delivers the first volume of a sweeping trilogy on World War II's Pacific theater, an epic work poised to redefine the narrative of the war in Asia. Beginning with Japan’s 1937 invasion of China, Frank details how this conflict, spanning the region from India to the Pacific, claimed twenty-five million lives and fundamentally reshaped the globe. Drawing on rich archival research and new evidence, this narrative vividly portrays the battles and connects their profound legacies to the twenty-first century.