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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... Manchuria— beckoned as an area rich in resources . Japan's attention focused first on Korea , where Russia became its chief rival for domination of that timber rich country . The Japanese were prepared to fight the Russians if necessary ...
... Manchuria— beckoned as an area rich in resources . Japan's attention focused first on Korea , where Russia became its chief rival for domination of that timber rich country . The Japanese were prepared to fight the Russians if necessary ...
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... 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 from European Russia. The tsar's ...
... 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 from European Russia. The tsar's ...
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... Manchuria's western neighbor, Mongolia, which must have seemed huge and underpopulated by Japanese standards. In January 1915 the Japanese ambassador in Peking delivered an ultimatum to the Chinese government, subsequently known as the ...
... Manchuria's western neighbor, Mongolia, which must have seemed huge and underpopulated by Japanese standards. In January 1915 the Japanese ambassador in Peking delivered an ultimatum to the Chinese government, subsequently known as the ...
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... Manchuria , which was admittedly in disarray , was openly bruited about Tokyo in the late 1920s . There is no doubt that barbarism and banditry were the order of the day in Manchuria . But in actual fact the Japanese coveted Manchuria ...
... Manchuria , which was admittedly in disarray , was openly bruited about Tokyo in the late 1920s . There is no doubt that barbarism and banditry were the order of the day in Manchuria . But in actual fact the Japanese coveted Manchuria ...
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... Manchuria be consolidated, but believed that Japan's destinies lay to the south. Specifically, the Tosei believed that the Philippines, Hong Kong, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Burma, and particularly the Dutch East Indies constituted ...
... Manchuria be consolidated, but believed that Japan's destinies lay to the south. Specifically, the Tosei believed that the Philippines, Hong Kong, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Burma, and particularly the Dutch East Indies constituted ...
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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