Japan at War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan at War write by Haruko Taya Cook. This book was released on 2000. Japan at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Approximately three million Japanese died in a conflict that raged for years over much of the globe, from Hawaii to India, Alaska to Australia, causing death and suffering to untold millions in China, southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, as well as pain and anguish to families of soldiers and civilians around the world. Yet how much do we know of Japan's war?In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese home front during the devastating raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how this violent conflict affected the lives of ordinary Japanese people.'Oral History of a compellingly high order.' Kirkus Reviews'This book seeks out the true feelings of the wartime generation [and] illuminates the contradictions between official views of the war and living testimony.' Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan's War
Japan's War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan's War write by Edwin P. Hoyt. This book was released on 2001-01-16. Japan's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully addresses some of the biggest questions left from the Pacific front of World War II.
Eagle Against the Sun
Eagle Against the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eagle Against the Sun write by Ronald H. Spector. This book was released on 2020-11-03. Eagle Against the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The best book by far on the Pacific War” (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict. This “superbly readable, insightful, gripping” (Washington Post Book World) contribution to WWII history combines impeccable research with electrifying detail and offers provocative interpretations of this brutal forty-four-month struggle. Author and historian Ronald H. Spector reassesses US and Japanese strategy and shows that the dual advance across the Pacific by MacArthur and Nimitz was more a pragmatic solution to bureaucratic, doctrinal, and public relations problems facing the Army and Navy than a strategic calculation. He also argues that Japan made its fatal error not in the Midway campaign but in abandoning its offensive strategy after that defeat and allowing itself to be drawn into a war of attrition. Spector skillfully takes us from top-secret strategy meetings in Washington, London, and Tokyo to distant beaches and remote Asian jungles with battle-weary GIs. He reveals that the US had secret plans to wage unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan months before Pearl Harbor and shows that MacArthur and his commanders ignored important intercepts of Japanese messages that would have saved thousands of lives in Papua and Leyte. Throughout, Spector contends that American decisions in the Pacific War were shaped more often by the struggles between the British and the Americans, and between the Army and the Navy, than by strategic considerations. Spector vividly recreates the major battles, little-known campaigns, and unfamiliar events leading up to the deadliest air raid ever, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the American war in the Pacific and the people and forces that determined its outcome.
War Plan Orange
War Plan Orange - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Plan Orange write by Edward S Miller. This book was released on 2007-03-01. War Plan Orange available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange—the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, formulated over the forty years prior to World War II.
Embracing Defeat
Embracing Defeat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embracing Defeat write by John W Dower. This book was released on 2000-07-04. Embracing Defeat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.
