ARMOR Magazine
"With the final volume, Harmsen ably brings the trilogy to a close. Well researched for its size and scope, Asian Armageddon shows what can be done with disciplined writing and a fresh look at a subject. Our only regret is that each volume was not double in size. Asian Armageddon punches intellectually far above its size and deserves your serious consideration."
Army History Magazine
This engaging, dense work of 186 pages, divided into nine chapters, will spark readers’ interest in this topic.
WWII History Magazine
"...concludes the series by effectively showing how wide-ranging the war truly was, involving more than just the Americans and Japanese. The book also covers the actions of various allies and the war's effects on civilian populations. The maps are well done, and the photograph insert contains many iconic and dramatic images."
Asian Review of Books
"...[Harmsen] demonstrates a keen eye for detail and an impressive interpretative approach to historical events."
Robert A. Kapp
"Darting from Pacific theatre to theatre in the global conflagration that was World War II, Harmsen combines meticulous narrative with a vast array of personal recollections from combattants in the battles that led to Japan's defeat. The result is an informed narrative but also a memorable accounting of ultimate struggle, triumph and catastrophe."
Journal of Military History
"If the purpose of a general history of the war in the Asia-Pacific region from 1944 to 1945 is to provide a sense of how the war was fought and what it was like to endure it, then Asian Armageddon achieves this purpose."
Ret. Army Brigadier General and Historian Michael Clemmesen
"It is ground-breaking. The book creates clarity and brings new information, even for a military historian who has studied these campaigns and operations on and above the sea for decades. The author deserves thanks for this incredible effort."
Yan Xu
"Harmsen provides a refreshing perspective to the controversial question how long the war in the Asia Pacific lasted. Harmsen stimulates any reader interested in WWII to contextualize the Japanese-American war of 1941 to 1945 within the much larger narrative stretching from the civil wars of China of the 1920s all the way until the evacuation of Saigon in 1975."
Strategic Studies Quarterly
"Harmsen uses just enough personal accounts of the individual soldiers and civilians engaged in the fighting to offer the reader a sense of just how desperate and brutal the fighting was in the Pacific Theater. '
