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Author | : Donald M. Goldstein |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597974625 |
The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the eminent scholar of Pearl Harbor, who obtained them from Japanese naval leaders while working for the Military History Section of the American forces that occupied Japan. Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon have assembled this collection so that these important documents are not lost to history. The editors also provide expert commentary to introduce and explain the importance of the materials. This book forms the companion volume to The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans (Brassey's, Inc., 1993), which Goldstein and Dillon also edited. Most of the documents published here are not available anywhere else, with many translated for the first time. This edited collection covers three main topics: the Japanese navy before World War II, prewar diplomacy and politics, and Japanese naval operations and policy during the war. The documents include diary extracts and candid, short monographs written by high-ranking Japanese officers immediately after the war. They shed new light on the vast naval buildup before the war, the development of the navy's operational concepts for war with the United States, the organization and tactics of aircraft carrier forces, and the failure of Japanese submarine operations. No World War II library will be complete without this important volume.
Author | : William B. Hopkins |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1616732407 |
This “important comprehensive study” of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory (Roanoke Times). Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological narratives. In The Pacific War, William B. Hopkins, a Marine Corps veteran of the Pacific war and respected military history author, opens the story of the Pacific campaign to a broader and deeper view. Hopkins investigates the strategies, politics, and personalities that shaped the fighting. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land, sea, and air offers an insightful perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific, and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island, Hopkins’ account offers a fresh way of understanding the hows—and more significantly, the whys—of the Pacific War.
Author | : Robert O'Neill |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2015-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147281357X |
Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into World War II. This definitive history explores each of the major battles that America would fight in the ensuing struggle against Imperial Japan, from the naval clashes at Midway and Coral Sea to the desperate, bloody fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Each chapter reveals both the horrors of the battle and the Allies' grim yet heroic determination to wrest victory from what often seemed to be certain defeat, offering a valuable guide to the long road to victory in the Pacific.
Author | : Ralph F. Wetterhahn |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147666997X |
During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II. Details are included from two expeditions conducted by the author that reveal the location of an American pilot missing in the Philippines since 1942 and clear up a controversial account involving famed Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and U.S. Navy pilot James "Pug" Southerland.
Author | : Ian W. Toll |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2011-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393083179 |
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
Author | : Hector C. Bywater |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2002-04 |
Genre | : Imaginary wars and battles |
ISBN | : 1557095574 |
This gripping blow-by-blow account of a war between the United States and Japan, originally published in 1925, predicted actual events. Writing 16 years before the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Bywater, the world's leading naval authority in the period between the two world wars, prophesied a Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. in the Pacific, while simultaneously invading the Phillippines and Guam.
Author | : Donald M. Goldstein |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Details the Japanese thought process leading up to, during, and after the attack that changed the world.
Author | : James J. Fahey |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780618400805 |
Fahey was a 24-year-old garbage-truck driver when he enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 3, 1942, and became a seaman first class on the USS Montpelier. During almost three years of battle in the Pacific Ocean, he defied Navy rules against keeping a diary by writing copious notes on loose sheets of paper that appeared to anyone watching to be ordinary let
Author | : Hilary Conroy |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1989-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824812355 |
Eighteen essays on the failure of diplomatic efforts by the US and Japan between the two world wars--the problems that thwarted diplomacy, the possible avoidability of the Pacific War. The collection serves as a retroactive study in peace research as well as a study in diplomatic history. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Daniel Marston |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849083827 |
Offers an introduction to the Pacific War, including such topics as the opening amphibious operations and Japanese naval strategy after Midway.