Hardcover, 416 pages, 32 b/w photos, 5 maps. List price: $28 USD

Where to buy it::

Autographed copies are available direct from the author. Please contact Bruce for details and pricing: bdgamble@bellsouth.net 

Fortress Rabaul is also available from your local bookseller and online merchants.
      

What others are saying about Fortress Rabaul:

“This tour de force by Bruce Gamble is an absolute must for anyone interested in the true story of one of World War II’s most interesting—and most overlooked—battles. The author rivals Stephen Ambrose with his detailed personal accounts of not only victory and defeat, but also of the more routine events that entail quiet pride or—sometimes—suppressed embarrassment.”

             —Col. Walter Boyne, USAF (Ret.), author of Clash of Wings and former director of the National Air & Space Museum

"Fortress Rabaul opens a broader vista on this under-studied campaign with its wide research, thoughtful analysis, and gifted story-teller’s panache.”

—Richard B. Frank, in World War II magazine

"The narrative reads with all the vigor and imagery of a novel, while incorporating copious facts and detail…Not only does Fortress Rabaul fill an important gap in the coverage of the Southwest section of the Pacific War, it makes fine and engaging reading."

—Anthony Tully, coauthor of Shattered Sword:The Untold Story of the

Battle of Midway

“Not for the first time, Bruce Gamble has done amazing work gathering a dazzling array of tiny, little facts, then arranging them in a big, dazzling story that amazes one's inner historian even as it breaks one's heart on its way to a triumphal conclusion.”

—Eric Hammel, author of Islands of Hell: The U.S. Marines
in the Western Pacific

“To most of the reading public, the aerial siege of Rabaul remains one of the untold stories of the Pacific War. Nobody is better qualified than Bruce Gamble to relate that lengthy campaign, beginning with the first 15 months of the conflict. The depth and variety of his coverage is exceptional: not only the Allied and the Japanese perspectives, but the personalities and their attendant feuds; and ultimately the successful air blockade that released the unstoppable might of an industrialized America to take the war ever nearer Japan itself."

—Barrett Tillman, author of Whirlwind: The Air War
Against Japan, 1942-1945