Books by Lin Poyer

This work combines archival research and oral history to offer a comparative history of World War II in Micronesia. It seeks to develop Islander perspectives on a topic still dominated by military histories that all but ignore the effects of wartime operations on indigenous populations.

Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. This book presents the missing voices of Micronesians and views those years from their perspectives.