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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Page 79
... troops in the country . MacArthur had to convince Prime Minister John Curtin and General Thomas Blamey , commander of the Australian Army , to forsake the Brisbane Line . That line of defense would have left northern Australia open to ...
... troops in the country . MacArthur had to convince Prime Minister John Curtin and General Thomas Blamey , commander of the Australian Army , to forsake the Brisbane Line . That line of defense would have left northern Australia open to ...
Page 114
... troops on the island were minimal at the beginning of the campaign , but some 45,000 reinforcements were sent in an attempt to stem the advance of the American forces . The battle for the island lasted a full two months , with the ...
... troops on the island were minimal at the beginning of the campaign , but some 45,000 reinforcements were sent in an attempt to stem the advance of the American forces . The battle for the island lasted a full two months , with the ...
Page 156
... troops would be free to fight the American troops engaged in the Pacific . Roosevelt and Morgenthau were evidently moved by this logic . They continued to pour money into the coffers of Chinese officialdom . The Luce publications in ...
... troops would be free to fight the American troops engaged in the Pacific . Roosevelt and Morgenthau were evidently moved by this logic . They continued to pour money into the coffers of Chinese officialdom . The Luce publications in ...
Contents
Prelude to Conflict | 3 |
Planning Operation Hawaii | 27 |
From Pearl Harbor to Java Sea | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Never Look Back: History of World War II in the Pacific William A. Renzi,Mark D. Roehrs Limited preview - 2019 |
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The China-Burma-India Campaign, 1931-1945: Historiography and Annotated ... Eugene L. Rasor No preview available - 1998 |