Competing Voices from the Pacific War

Sean Brawley is Associate Professor of History, and Faculty Learning and Teaching Fellow, at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Chris Dixon is Associate Professor of History and coordinator of the Cultural History Project at the University of Queensland, Australia. His major publications include Greenwood's African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century. Beatrice Trefalt is a senior lecturer in the Japanese Studies program, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Growing Tensions: Japan, China, and the United StatesChapter 3: Pearl HarborChapter 4: Japanese Conquests, Allied Defeats, 1941-1942Chapter 5: Turning Points at Sea, 1942: Coral Sea and MidwayChapter 6: Turning the Tide on Land, 1942: Guadalcanal and New GuineaChapter 7: Wartime Life in Occupied Asia and the PacificChapter 8: Home Fronts: Japan, the United States, and AustraliaChapter 9: The Prisoner-of-War ExperienceChapter 10: Allied Offensive, 1943-45Chapter 11: Hiroshima and the Defeat of JapanChapter 12: SurrenderChapter 13: Legacies: The Significance of the Pacific War

For college- and high school-level educators and students, and general readers.