o There were almost 40,000 American casualties during the Battle of Okinawa, including more than 12,000 killed. It was the costliest battle in U.S. naval history, with 36 ships lost and 368 damaged. o ...

We're in the tail end of The Pacific, and the series saves its most harrowing combat and darkest themes for Part Nine, which covers the last battles in Japan. This is without a doubt the best episode ...

To prepare for the filming of HBO’s epic, $200-million World War II miniseries “The Pacific,” screenwriter Bruce C. McKenna accompanied a locations crew to a tiny coral island near Guam known as ...

I spend my days with self-absorbed morons who parade their stupidity across the TV screen and call it “reality.” So take it from me, it will make you proud again to be American if you take the time to ...

How can you tell that the new HBO miniseries, The Pacific, which documents the U.S. Pacific front in World War II, has contemporary political resonance? Because the series' two famous producers, Tom ...

Back in 2007, when HBO was still trying to calculate the cost of The Pacific, the upcoming ten-part WWII miniseries from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, no one imagined the answer would dovetail so ...

The Pacific moves along with a brief stop back in the U.S., before throwing us back into the heavy warfare. But this episode brings some changes to the mix and introduces a few new characters that ...

LOS ANGELES - It was inevitable after the popular and critical success of their 2001 World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers," which told the story of the drive to conquer Hitler and Mussolini, that ...

MIDWAY through the first hour of “Band of Brothers,” HBO’s 2001 mini-series about a company of paratroopers during and after D-Day, there’s a scene on a troop ship that’s jampacked with new recruits ...

Some books just stay with you. Perhaps it's a memorable storyline. Or the writing. Or a compelling narrative. Sometimes it's all of those and more. I first read With The Old Breed when I was in ...