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The book describes the severe consequences of going after an 'unconditional surrender' during WWII. Instead of intimidating the enemies, it infuriated them, and created an insurgent effect and ill-will that made picking up the pieces after the war all the more difficult. Whether or not Japan actually agreed to an unconditional surrender is contested in this book, precisely because Japanese leaders did not want to completely submit to outside influence after the war in a "Super Versailles" like scenario that would hold back progress indefinitely.
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major work by one of Japan's leading naval historians, this book traces Alfred Thayer Mahan's influence on Japan's rise as a sea power after the publication of his classic study, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. Hailed by the British Admiralty, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the international bestseller also was endorsed by the Japanese Naval Ministry, who took it as a clarion call to enhance their own sea power. That power, of course, was eventually used against the United States. Sadao Asada opens his book with a discussion of Mahan's sea power doctrine and demonstra
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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. --- War, Declaration of --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History --- Campaigns --- Causes. --- United States --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 --- World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Causes --- World War, 1939-1945 - Japan - Causes --- War, Declaration of - Japan - History - 20th century --- United States - Foreign relations - Japan --- Japan - Foreign relations - United States
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"Hawaii, December 7, 1941, shortly before 8 a.m.: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The devastating attack claims the lives of over 2,400 American soldiers, sinks or damages eighteen ships, and destroys nearly 350 aircraft. The US Congress declares war on Japan the following day. In this vivid and lively book, Takuma Melber breathes new life into the dramatic events that unfolded before, during, and after Pearl Harbor by putting the perspective of the Japanese attackers at the center. Most other histories of Pearl Harbor are told from the American point of view, so by giving attention to the Japanese perspective as well, Melber is able to provide a richer, more comprehensive and more balanced account of the battle, its conditions, and its consequences. He sheds new light on the long negotiations that went on between the Japanese and Americans in 1941, and shows how US intelligence and military leaders in Washington misinterpreted the information they had about Japanese war intentions. Melber's description of the battle itself is informed by the latest research and benefits from including the plannng and post-raid assessment made by the Japanese commanders. This balanced and thorougly researched book deepens our understanding of the battle that precipitated America's entry into the war and will appeal to anyone interested in World War II and military history."--
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"C'est donc une histoire sans héros ni vrais scélérats non plus, juste des hommes. La fin de la guerre du Pacifique fut en dernière analyse un drame humain dont la dynamique fut déterminée par les caractéristiques très humaines des participants : l'ambition, la peur, la vanité, la colère et les préjugés". Ainsi se termine l'ouvrage de Tsuyoshi Hasegawa consacré aux derniers mois d'un conflit qui mit aux prises trois acteurs : les Etats-Unis, l'Union soviétique, souvent négligée par les historiens qui ne lui réservent d'habitude qu'un rôle secondaire, et le Japon. Grâce à ses connaissances linguistiques exceptionnelles et à un examen minutieux des archives américaines, russes et japonaises, Hasegawa déconstruit sans complaisance les mythes accrédités par les histoires "nationales" d'un des épisodes les plus dramatiques du siècle dernier et dénoue un à un les fils de l'intrigue complexe qui aboutit au largage de la bombe atomiquqe sur Hiroshima et à l'entrée en guerre de l'URSS. Pourquoi Truman et Staline refusèrent-ils de transiger sur l'exigence de capitulation sans conditions imposée au Japon ? Pourquoi les Japonais s'accrochèrent-ils si longtemps à l'espoir vain d'une médiation soviétique pour mettre un terme à la guerre ? Pourquoi Hirohito décida-t-il d'imposer sa "décision sacrée" d'arrêter la guerre à son gouvernement et à son armée ? Le Japon aurait-il fini par capituler sans la bombe atomique ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions abordées dans un ouvrage passionnant où Hasegawa réussit le pari d'allier la rigueur de l'historien à un indéniable talent de narrateur.
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In this provocative book Hallett argues that dropping the atomic bomb on Japan had no impact on their surrender to America. What was more important was the threat of a Soviet and American invasion, and the Japanese government preferred to deal with America rather than have the Soviets turn the country communist. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were certainly evil, but how evil? Evil in which way? Conventionally, their evil has been explained away by repeating that the atomic bombings 'ended the war to save lives.' If true, the evil was not truly evil. In this book, Professor Hall
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