Never Look Back: A History of World War II in the Pacific50 years ago, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and brought a reluctant America into World War II. Armed with fresh materials, which have become available only in the last decade, Renzi and Roehrs take a critical look at the decisive Japanese-American episodes in "The Great Pacific War". Unlike standard histories of World War II, "Never Look Back" includes the Japanese perspective, bringing to light challenging facts: in "Operation Flying Elephant" the Japanese attempted to cause forest fires in the American West by releasing hydrogen-filled balloons. When Americans of Japanese ancestry were interned during the conflict, word reached Japan of their plight and resulted in even greater mistreatment of American POWs in Japan. It is argued that Japan did not surrender because of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the conventional firebombing or because of the US submarine campaign, but because the USSR entered the war. |
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The atomic bomb , America ' s most secret project during the war , was in large
part made possible by Hitler ' s racial bigotry . Individual American physicists had
undertaken nuclear research in the 1930s , but their efforts were uncoordinated ...
The atomic bomb , America ' s most secret project during the war , was in large
part made possible by Hitler ' s racial bigotry . Individual American physicists had
undertaken nuclear research in the 1930s , but their efforts were uncoordinated ...
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bomb . And such a high - altitude detonation would have released radiation ,
which later precipitation would have conveyed to earth , possibly inflicting in the
long run far more damage over a wider area than explosion of the device at a ...
bomb . And such a high - altitude detonation would have released radiation ,
which later precipitation would have conveyed to earth , possibly inflicting in the
long run far more damage over a wider area than explosion of the device at a ...
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The standard work on the Manhattan Project is Richard Rhodes , The Making of
the Atomic Bomb ( New York : Simon & Schuster , 1986 ) , which is better on the
physics and personalities than on the politics involved . Any student of nuclear ...
The standard work on the Manhattan Project is Richard Rhodes , The Making of
the Atomic Bomb ( New York : Simon & Schuster , 1986 ) , which is better on the
physics and personalities than on the politics involved . Any student of nuclear ...
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Contents
Planning Operation Hawaii | 27 |
From Pearl Harbor to Java | 47 |
Coral Sea and Midway | 61 |
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| Title | Never Look Back: A History of World War II in the Pacific Iroquois and Their Neighbors |
| Authors | William A. Renzi, Mark D. Roehrs |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | M.E. Sharpe, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0873328086, 9780873328081 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / World War II History / Oceania |
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