Britain Japan And Pearl Harbour

Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136156533

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Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour by Antony Best Pdf

Recent controversies about Pearl Harbour have highlighted the need for a new assessment of British policy towards Japan during the period leading up to the Pacific War. Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour provides a thorough and authoritative account of British efforts to avert conflict with Japan, and makes use of the most recently released material from British archives, including information from intelligence sources. This is the most comprehensive study so far of British policy towards East Asia in this period. It illustrates the extent of British weakness in the region and the degree to which the constant need to appease American opinion hamstrung Britain's ability to achieve an understanding with Japan.

Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 0415111714

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Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor by Antony Best Pdf

An authoritative account of British efforts to avert a conflict with Japan. Using recently released material the author shows how the need to appease American opinion hamstrung Britain's ability to achieve an understanding with Japan.

Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136156465

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Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour by Antony Best Pdf

Recent controversies about Pearl Harbour have highlighted the need for a new assessment of British policy towards Japan during the period leading up to the Pacific War. Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour provides a thorough and authoritative account of British efforts to avert conflict with Japan, and makes use of the most recently released material from British archives, including information from intelligence sources. This is the most comprehensive study so far of British policy towards East Asia in this period. It illustrates the extent of British weakness in the region and the degree to which the constant need to appease American opinion hamstrung Britain's ability to achieve an understanding with Japan.

Author : A. Best
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230287280

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British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914–1941 by A. Best Pdf

This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Using many previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book shows how this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400868285

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Road to Pearl Harbor by Herbert Feis Pdf

This is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan. It is full and impartial. Though written as an independent and private study, records and information of an exceptional range and kind were used in its making. These give it authority. They include all the pertinent State Department papers; the American official military records in preparation; selections from the Roosevelt papers at Hyde Park; the full private diaries of Stimons, Morgenthau, and Grew; the file of the intercepted "Magic" cables; and equivalent collections of official and private Japanese records. The author was at the time in the State Department (as Adviser on International Economic Affairs) and thus in close touch with the men and matters of which he writes. In telling how this war came about, this book tells much of how other wars happen. For it is a close study of the ways in which officials, diplomats, and soldiers think and act; of the environment of decision, of the ambitions of nations, of the clash of their ideas, of the way sin which fear and mistrust affect events, and of the struggle for time and advantage. The narrative follows events in a double mirror of which one side is Washington and the other Tokyo, and synchronizes the images. Thus it traces the ways in which the acts and decisions of this country influenced Japan and vice versa. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Akira Iriye
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0312218184

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Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War by Akira Iriye Pdf

Assembling more than thirty primary documents - including proposals, memoranda, decrypted messages, and imperial conference reports - Iriye presents diplomatic exchanges from both American and Japanese perspectives to determine how and why the United States and Japan went to war in 1941. A detailed introduction provides background on Japanese aggression in China and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and economic unrest and isolationism in the United States. Readings add an interpretive dimension, placing Pearl Harbor in global context with essays from American, Japanese, Chinese, Soviet, German, British, and Indonesian perspectives that explain how various countries applied pressure, offered assistance, exacerbated rifts, and significantly affected negotiations and Japan's ultimate decision for war.

Author : Saki Dockrill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349231294

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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Saki Dockrill Pdf

'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.' Antony Best, London School of Economics This multi-authored work, edited by Saki Dockrill, is an original, unique, and controversial interpretation of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Dr Dockrill, the author of Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament, has skilfully converted the proceedings of an international conference held in London into a stimulating and readable account of the Pacific War. This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.

Author : Christopher Thorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001969166

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Allies of a Kind by Christopher Thorne Pdf

Author : Evan Mawdsley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300154467

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December 1941 by Evan Mawdsley Pdf

An account of the dramatic turning point in World War II that marked “the dawn of American might and the struggle for supremacy in Southeast Asia” (Times Higher Education). In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded . . . On Monday, December 1, 1941, the Japanese government made its final decision to attack Britain and America. In the following days, the Red Army launched a counterthrust in Moscow while the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and invaded Malaya. By December 12, Hitler had declared war on the United States, the collapse of British forces in Malaya had begun, and Hitler had secretly laid out his policy of genocide. Churchill was leaving London to meet Roosevelt as Anthony Eden arrived in Russia to discuss the postwar world with Stalin. Combined, these occurrences brought about a “new war,” as Churchill put it, with Japan and America deeply involved and Russia resurgent. This book, a truly international history, examines the momentous happenings of December 1941 from a variety of perspectives. It shows that their significance is clearly understood only when they are viewed together. “Marks the change from a continental war into a global war in an original and interesting way.”—The Sunday Telegraph Seven (Books of the Year) “Suspenseful . . . Mawdsley embarks on the action from the first day and never lets up in this crisp, chronological study . . . A rigorous, sharp survey of this decisive moment in the war.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Jeffrey Record
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9781584873785

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Japan's Decision for War in 1941 by Jeffrey Record Pdf

Author : J. Garry Clifford,Masako R. Okura
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826273307

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The Desperate Diplomat by J. Garry Clifford,Masako R. Okura Pdf

On December 7, 1941, the course of U.S. history changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three weeks prior, Japanese Special Envoy to the United States Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks between Japan and America and spare his country the loss he knew would occur if a war began. But as he reported, “Working for peace is not as simple as starting a war.” For more than seventy years, many have unfairly viewed Kurusu and his visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Editors J. Garry Clifford and Masako R. Okura seek to dispel this myth with their edition of Kurusu’s memoir, The Desperate Diplomat. Kurusu published his personal memoir in 1952, in Japanese, describing his efforts to prevent war between the two nations, his total lack of knowledge regarding the Pearl Harbor attack, and what “might have been” had he been successful in his endeavor for peace, while offering an exclusive perspective on the Japanese reaction to the attack. However, the information contained in his memoir was unavailable to most of the world, save those fluent in Japanese, because it had never been published in another language. With the discovery of Kurusu’s own English memoir, his story can finally be told to a wider audience. Clifford and Okura have used both the Japanese and English memoirs and added an introduction and annotations to Kurusu’s story, making The Desperate Diplomat an essential look at an event that remains controversial in the history of both nations. Anyone who takes interest in the history of Pearl Harbor cannot afford to omit this previously unavailable information from their library.

Author : Roger Parkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : NWU:35556009463407

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Attack on Pearl Harbour by Roger Parkinson Pdf

The Japanese enter into World War II (2) and the Pacific theatre of war commences.

Author : Hilary Conroy,Harry Wray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015016950654

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Pearl Harbor Reexamined by Hilary Conroy,Harry Wray Pdf

Eighteen essays on the failure of diplomatic efforts by the US and Japan between the two world wars--the problems that thwarted diplomacy, the possible avoidability of the Pacific War. The collection serves as a retroactive study in peace research as well as a study in diplomatic history. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Beth Bailey,David Farber
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700628131

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Beyond Pearl Harbor by Beth Bailey,David Farber Pdf

In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the Pacific: Kota Bharu on the northeast coast of Malaya (now Malaysia); Thailand, the one site not claimed by a western power; Pearl Harbor, O’ahu; Singapore, key to the defense of Britain’s Asian empire; Guam, the only island in the Mariana chain not controlled by Japan; Wake Island; Hong Kong; and the Philippines. Told from multiple perspectives, the stories of these attacks reveal the arc of imperialism, colonialism, and burgeoning nationalism in the Pacific world. In Beyond Pearl Harbor renowned scholars hailing from four continents and representing six nations reinterpret the meaning of the coordinated, and devastating, attacks of December 7/8, 1941. Working from a variety of angles, they revise and expand, to an unprecedented extent, what we understand about these events—in particular, how Japan’s overwhelming, if short-lived, victories contributed to emerging solidarities and nationalist identities within and across Pacific societies. In their essays we see how various elite actors incorporated the attacks into new regimes of knowledge and expertise that challenged and displaced existing hierarchies. Extending far beyond Pearl Harbor, the events of December 1941, as we see in this volume, are part of a story of clashing empires and anti-colonial visions—a story whose outcome, even now, remains to be seen.

Author : Robert Stinnett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743201299

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Day Of Deceit by Robert Stinnett Pdf

Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.