Never Look Back: 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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... Japan Comes of Age Japanese - American Relations after 1900 Japan's Growing Military Commitment in China The Drift toward War with the United States The year 1868 was as dramatic and important in Japanese history as the year 1941. In ...
... Japan Comes of Age Japanese - American Relations after 1900 Japan's Growing Military Commitment in China The Drift toward War with the United States The year 1868 was as dramatic and important in Japanese history as the year 1941. In ...
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... troops poured across Korea and entered Manchuria, China's industrialized northern heart, on May 1. Port Arthur was also besieged and eventually fell to the Japanese. The Russians hastened to field an army in Siberia, 6,000 miles distant ...
... troops poured across Korea and entered Manchuria, China's industrialized northern heart, on May 1. Port Arthur was also besieged and eventually fell to the Japanese. The Russians hastened to field an army in Siberia, 6,000 miles distant ...
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... military stratagem, the army, via the time- honored doctrine of gekokujo, could simply declare that the emperor was being ill-advised and that true obedience dictated the course the military had chosen. And some Japanese viewed the ...
... military stratagem, the army, via the time- honored doctrine of gekokujo, could simply declare that the emperor was being ill-advised and that true obedience dictated the course the military had chosen. And some Japanese viewed the ...
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... Japan's destinies lay to the south. Specifically, the Tosei believed that the ... army, however divided, closed ranks and looked after its own. They ... Japanese overseas expansion was now more likely to be southward. And in 1936 ...
... Japan's destinies lay to the south. Specifically, the Tosei believed that the ... army, however divided, closed ranks and looked after its own. They ... Japanese overseas expansion was now more likely to be southward. And in 1936 ...
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... Japanese behavior in China became atrocious . Chinese soldiers attempting to ... military . Worse , Konoye's choice as foreign minister , Yosuke Matsuoka ... army staff officers in Tokyo who deluged Konoye with letters and phone calls ...
... Japanese behavior in China became atrocious . Chinese soldiers attempting to ... military . Worse , Konoye's choice as foreign minister , Yosuke Matsuoka ... army staff officers in Tokyo who deluged Konoye with letters and phone calls ...
Contents
From Pearl Harbor to Java | |
Coral Sea and Midway | |
First Allied Land Victories | |
The Marianas and the Philippines | |
Submarines Firebombs and Survival | |
The CBI Theater | |
The Final Campaigns | |
Japan Surrenders | |
References | |
Index | |
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