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December 8, 1941
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ISBN: 1299052495 1603446621 9781603446624 1585442461 9781585442461 9781603447416 1603447415 9781299052499 Year: 2003 Publisher: College Station Texas A & M University Press

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On December 8, 1941, Japanese Navy bombers and fighters crippled the largest force of B17 fourengine bombers outside the United States. Bartsch details personal experiences and presents the political and strategic aspects of American and Japanese planning for a war in the Pacific.


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The question of MacArthur's reputation
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ISBN: 0826266517 9780826266514 9780826218308 082621830X Year: 2008 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

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"Ferrell examines the WWI battle at Côte de Châtillon, reconstructing the movements of troops and the decisions of officers to detail how MacArthur's subordinates were the true heroes and how the taking of the hill could have been a disaster had the Eighty-fourth Brigade followed the general's original plan"--Provided by publisher.


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Truman & MacArthur : policy, politics, and the hunger for honor and renown
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ISBN: 1281726443 9786611726447 9870253000187 0253000181 9780253000187 9781281726445 6611726446 9780253350664 0253350662 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and pushed them on a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. Hoping to strike a decisive blow that would c


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MacArthur in Asia
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ISBN: 0801466180 0801466199 9780801466199 9780801449390 0801449391 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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General Douglas MacArthur's storied career is inextricably linked to Asia. His father, Arthur, served as Military Governor of the Philippines while Douglas was a student at West Point, and the younger MacArthur would serve several tours of duty in that country over the next four decades, becoming friends with several influential Filipinos, including the country's future president, Emanuel L. Quezon. In 1935, he became Quezon's military advisor, a post he held after retiring from the U.S. Army and at the time of Japan's invasion of 1941. As Supreme Commander for the Southwest Pacific, MacArthur led American forces throughout the Pacific War. He officially accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and would later oversee the Allied occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951. He then led the UN Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951, until he was dismissed from his post by President Truman.In MacArthur in Asia, the distinguished Japanese historian Hiroshi Masuda offers a new perspective on the American icon, focusing on his experiences in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea and highlighting the importance of the general's staff-the famous "Bataan Boys" who served alongside MacArthur throughout the Asian arc of his career-to both MacArthur's and the region's history. First published to wide acclaim in Japanese in 2009 and translated into English for the first time, this book uses a wide range of sources-American and Japanese, official records and oral histories-to present a complex view of MacArthur, one that illuminates his military decisions during the Pacific campaign and his administration of the Japanese Occupation.


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The final betrayal : Mountbatten, MacArthur and the tragedy of Japanese POWs
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ISBN: 1783370483 1299199003 1844684784 9781844684786 9781783370481 9781848840942 1848840942 9781299199002 Year: 2010 Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire [England] : Pen & Sword Military,

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This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945 and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes investigators arrived. After 14 August groups of Allied POWs were brutally murdered. Vast amounts of documentation concerning crimes were burned ahead of the arrival of Allied forces. POW facilities and medical experimentation installations were either abandoned or destroyed. Perhaps the greatest crim

American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964.
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ISBN: 0316544981 9780316544986 Year: 1978 Publisher: Boston Little, Brown

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