Book Review #1

War in the PACIFIC :
From the fall of Singapore to Japanese surrender

Written by Jerry Scutts

144 pages

As the title foreshadows, this book, more like an encyclopedia, features every single significant event that has taken place in the pacific from the fall of Singapore to Japanese surrender. Unlike our normal classroom textbooks, this book has history of war outside of Singapore, not only in Singapore. Therefore, this book gives an insight of the life outside of Singapore when she fell to the Japanese.

This book is a big non-fiction book which mainly uses illustrations and pictures to relay its message. Texts are rarely seen, and this irony of text and illustration is very much soothing for the eye. Through these black and white images, readers are constantly provided insights on the situation of war in the pacific. Maps with grids, actual army plans, pictures of real fighter planes are all comprised of in the book. This book is definitely ideal for soothing the eye for leisure reading and project work. By chance, it might even cure myopia.

This book is definitely my choice of non-fiction books and I strongly recommend anyone who wants to read non-fiction books without stress, this book.