Take A Unique Look Into History With Gameloft's First Book App: War In The Pacific
January 14, 2011
Gameloft looks to take their App Store presence to an all new audience. The company that brought you games like Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance 2 and Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, now brings a digital copy of War in the Pacific by Richard Overy.
Containing the same amazing and unique material of the hardcover, shelf-stuffing version, Gameloft's publication is 56-pages of animated maps, zoom-able high-resolution photographs, archived video footage, and interactive rare documentation involving the Pacific War of the early 1940s.
Dive into the conflict that swarmed the Pacific Ocean islands for nearly half a decade. Revisit the fuse lighting gratuitous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. bases on Guam and Wake Island. The app continues through the merciless engagements in the jungle islands of Guadalcanal and the Philippines. War in the Pacific is a chronicle of events and heroic determination endured by men who gave blood, sweat, and their lives for defending countries and cultures they cared about.
Here are some of the 19 fascinating replica documents included:
• Franklin D. Roosevelt’s draft, with hand-written amendments, for his “Day of Infamy” speech
• Pocket Guide to Australia: Information for American Troops stationed in Australia
• Chief of Staff directive on the capture of the Solomons and the assault on Rabaul
• Handwritten DeVane report on the assault of Guadalcanal including a hand-drawn map
• Radio messages sent by Marines during the battle for Tarawa
• Marine reports on the battle of Iwo Jima
A little about the author:
• Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and author of over 20 books on the Second World War. He is a winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and in 2001 was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize. He regularly contributes to the Independent, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian and the Literary Review.
Compatible with iPad running iOS 3.2 or later, War in the Pacific is available in the App Store now for $9.99.
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