Island Infernos: The Us Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944In Fire and Fortitude winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army's dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America ever closer to victory or defeat. "A feat of prodigious scholarship." The Wall Street Journal "Wonderful." St.