From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941–45

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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An interpretation of World War II in Asia and the Pacific from an international perspective, this book has converted the proceedings of an international conference at London into an account of the Pacific War, with contributions from various historians.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-11-26
Mått140 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt466 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor242
Upplaga1994
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333577226

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List of Maps - Acknowledgements - Preface; D.C.Watt - Contributors - Introduction; S.Dockrill - PART 1: THE ROAD TO PEARL HARBOR - Anglo-Japanese Alienation Revisited; I.Nish - Winston Churchill, the Military, and the Defence of the British Empire in Asia; J.Pritchard - Admiral's Yamamoto's Surprise Attack and the Japanese Navy's War Strategy; I.Hata - PART 2: CONFLICTS IN THE PACIFIC - American Seizure of Japan's Strategic Points: Summer 1942-44; R.Spector - US Army Codebreakers and the War against Japan; E.Drea - PART 3: CONFLICTS IN ASIA - Burma: the Longest War: 1941-45; L.Allen & D.Steeds - Thailand, Japanese Pan-Asianism and the greater East Asia Co-Presperity Sphere; N.Brailey - The China Theatre and the Pacific War; W.Tao - PART 4: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DURING THE WAR - The German-Japanese Alliance in the Second World War; B.Martin - Britain, the Commonwealth and Pacific Security; P.Lowe - PART 5: TERMINATION OF THE WAR IN AUGUST 1945 - Hiroshima: a Strategy of Shock; L.Freedman & S.Dockrill - PART 6: CONCLUSIONS - The Legacy of 'the Pacific War' seen from Europe; S.Dockrill - Select Bibliography - Index