This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region.

This expansive history of Guam provides a rare look at the people and culture of this tiny, but strategically important Pacific Island.

Provides basic reference material on Micronesia, a region encompassing a vast area of the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert islands and the island nation of Nauru.

Part of the story centers around a young Chamorro named Carlos Taitano, who returned home to Guam in 1948 after serving in the U.S. Army in the Pacific.

This book chronicles a part of the first mass migration of Vietnamese "boat people," before and after the fall of Saigon in April 1975--a story still unfolding almost half a century later.