When Avalanche Press brought back the classic John Prados' Third Reich in 2001, they always intended that it be followed by a sequel covering the Pacific Theater with the same game system and at the same scale. They brought out Great Pacific War in 2003, and the next step seemed clear: a player’s guide with extra units and scenarios, plus strategy hints.

The book comes with 120 die-cut and mounted counters, just like those in the games themselves.

There are new scenarios covering two very real possibilities that never occurred: a 1936 war between France and the Soviet Union following the Nazi occupation of the Rhineland, and a 1946 war between East and West. Two smaller scenarios concentrate on the Spanish Civil War and the Japanese invasion of China.