Daniel McKay, the author of Beyond Hostile Islands, is an associate professor of English at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico.  His book is a kind of literature review with a twist. It is a comparison of the fictional literature of American and New Zealand authors and their fictional interpretations of World War Two in the Pacific, focused on literary works dealing with combat novels, post-war Japan-bashing, Japanese internment, the memoirs of those who were captives of the Japanese, and novels about the development of the atomic bomb. It is a pioneering effort investigating connections between memory and literary studies. This reviewer finds the study intriguing but not fully convincing, as will be discussed more fully below. The work will be helpful to those already familiar with its themes and literary theories but may be difficult to comprehend for the uninitiated.