Detailed profiles explore the leaders, tactics and equipment of the US and Japanese armies.

ANDREW RAWSON is a freelance writer who has written several books, covering campaigns from the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II, including Battle Story: the Battle of the Bulge, British Army Handbook 1914-1918, Vietnam War Handbook, The Third Reich 1919-1939 and Eyes Only: The Top Secret Correspondence between Marshall and Eisenhower. He has a master's degree from Birmingham University's history department.