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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Japan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120837237
Author : Lester Brooks
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002294802
Account of the tragic days between the explosion of the first A-bomb and the surrender of Japan. The author has drawn on captured documents, Allied interrogations, the Tokyo Trials, and interviews. He has gone back into Japanese history to learn the ways of thought and the inner rhythm of the culture that led Japan into World War II and defeat.
Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440852121
This detailed two-volume set tells the story of the Cold War, the dominant international event of the second half of the 20th century, through a diverse selection of primary source documents. One of the most extensive to date, this set of primary source documents studies the Cold War comprehensively from its beginning, with the emergence of the world's first communist government in Russia in late 1917, to its end, in 1991. All of the key events, including the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the nuclear arms race, are discussed in detail. The primary sources provide insight into the thinking of all participants, drawing on Western, Soviet, Asian, and Latin American perspectives. In The Cold War: Interpreting Conflict through Primary Documents primary documents are organized chronologically, allowing readers to appreciate the ramifications of the Cold War within a clear time frame. Extensive interpretive commentary provides in-depth background and context for each document. This work is an indispensable reference for all readers seeking to become deeply knowledgeable about the Cold War.
Author : Hakan Gustavsson
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Major Eric S. Fowler
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782895909
Sun Tzu asserts that success is not winning every battle fought, but subduing the enemy’s will without fighting. Nevertheless, modern military thought fails to distinguish an enemy’s will-to-fight from their means to do so, limiting the ways military leaders apply operational art, problem framing, and conflict termination in pursuit of strategic objectives. The author asserts that gaining and maintaining a position of relative advantage for favorable conflict resolution requires leaders to understand the enemy’s will-to-fight with equal fidelity as their means. This study examines U.S. planning efforts for post-WWII Japan from 1942 to 1945, focusing on the options planners possessed to achieve their ends; their choice to safeguard the Japanese Emperor; their understanding of the Japanese will-to-fight; and the way planners developed that understanding. The record reveals that-despite more forceful options-planners favored safeguarding the Imperial Institution; planners considered the Japanese people’s will-to-fight as inexorably linked to the condition of their Sovereign, increasing in response to threats against Japanese national identity; and planners developed this understanding through discourse among experts in diplomacy, military governance, political culture, anthropology, and military intelligence. The implication-an enemy’s will-to-fight can be targeted separate from their means and doing so may not require fighting.
Author : U.s. Army Command and General Staff College
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1502926121
Sun Tzu asserts that success is not winning every battle fought, but subduing the enemy's will without fighting. Nevertheless, modern military thought fails to distinguish an enemy's will-to-fight from their means to do so, limiting the ways military leaders apply operational art, problem framing, and conflict termination in pursuit of strategic objectives. The author asserts that gaining and maintaining a position of relative advantage for favorable conflict resolution requires leaders to understand the enemy's will-to-fight with equal fidelity as their means. This study examines U.S. planning efforts for post-WWII Japan from 1942 to 1945, focusing on the options planners possessed to achieve their ends; their choice to safeguard the Japanese Emperor; their understanding of the Japanese will-to-fight; and the way planners developed that understanding. The record reveals that—despite more forceful options—planners favored safeguarding the Imperial Institution; planners considered the Japanese people's will-to-fight as inexorably linked to the condition of their Sovereign, increasing in response to threats against Japanese national identity; and planners developed this understanding through discourse among experts in diplomacy, military governance, political culture, anthropology, and military intelligence. The implication—an enemy's will-to-fight can be targeted separate from their means and doing so may not require fighting.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : UCAL:$B643207
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Military history
ISBN : UCBK:C098769933
Author : Dick Wilson
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945
ISBN : UCSC:32106014169202
Author : Marc Gallicchio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190091125
A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. Behind it lay a debate that had been raging for some weeks prior among American military and political leaders. The surrender fulfilled the commitment that Franklin Roosevelt had made in 1943 at the Casablanca conference that it be "unconditional." Though readily accepted as policy at the time, after Roosevelt's death in April 1945 support for unconditional surrender wavered, particularly among Republicans in Congress, when the bloody campaigns on Iwo Jima and Okinawa made clear the cost of military victory against Japan. Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945 had been one thing; the war in the pacific was another. Many conservatives favored a negotiated surrender. Though this was the last time American forces would impose surrender unconditionally, questions surrounding it continued through the 1950s and 1960s--with the Korean and Vietnam Wars--when liberal and conservative views reversed, including over the definition of "peace with honor." The subject was revived during the ceremonies surrounding the 50th anniversary in 1995, and the Gulf and Iraq Wars, when the subjects of exit strategies and "accomplished missions" were debated. Marc Gallicchio reveals how and why the surrender in Tokyo Bay unfolded as it did and the principle figures behind it, including George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. The latter would effectively become the leader of Japan and his tenure, and indeed the very nature of the American occupation, was shaped by the nature of the surrender. Most importantly, Gallicchio reveals how the policy of unconditional surrender has shaped our memory and our understanding of World War II.
Author : Marshall Everett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0364182881
Excerpt from Exciting Experiences in the Japanese-Russian War: Including a Complete History of Japan, Russia, China and Korea Relation of the United States to the Other Nations Cause of the Conflict Moved by the immensity of the death struggle precipitated by Jap and Russ in the far East, its importance to Americans in com mon with the Whole world, and the intensity of interest with which the war was received, I have undertaken to record a detailed, con nected history of this epoch making period. Recognizing the futility of attempting to make clear to the reader the unique complications of the situation without first familiarizing him with what has led. Up to the strife, particular attention has been devoted to the story of the past. Thus I have delved deep into the misty story of long ago and have borrowed without stint of the wisdom of learned men of all ages who have left to us the priceless heritage, information concerning the development of their forgotten days. To these innumerable and unnamed contributors to the treasury of human knowledge grateful acknowledgement is rendered. Without their labors it would be impossible to present an accurate, concise and comprehensive statement of the' political, economic, traditional and diplomatic factors that brought Russian and Jap face to face in deadly combat on the frozen fields and arctic seas of Korea and Man churia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ronald H. Spector
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982135232
“The best book by far on the Pacific War” (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict. This “superbly readable, insightful, gripping” (Washington Post Book World) contribution to WWII history combines impeccable research with electrifying detail and offers provocative interpretations of this brutal forty-four-month struggle. Author and historian Ronald H. Spector reassesses US and Japanese strategy and shows that the dual advance across the Pacific by MacArthur and Nimitz was more a pragmatic solution to bureaucratic, doctrinal, and public relations problems facing the Army and Navy than a strategic calculation. He also argues that Japan made its fatal error not in the Midway campaign but in abandoning its offensive strategy after that defeat and allowing itself to be drawn into a war of attrition. Spector skillfully takes us from top-secret strategy meetings in Washington, London, and Tokyo to distant beaches and remote Asian jungles with battle-weary GIs. He reveals that the US had secret plans to wage unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan months before Pearl Harbor and shows that MacArthur and his commanders ignored important intercepts of Japanese messages that would have saved thousands of lives in Papua and Leyte. Throughout, Spector contends that American decisions in the Pacific War were shaped more often by the struggles between the British and the Americans, and between the Army and the Navy, than by strategic considerations. Spector vividly recreates the major battles, little-known campaigns, and unfamiliar events leading up to the deadliest air raid ever, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the American war in the Pacific and the people and forces that determined its outcome.
Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393345247
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order. John W. Dower is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for War Without Mercy.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063984231
Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton Legacy Library
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691647364
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.