Prelude To Pearl Harbor

Author : John Gripentrog
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538149447

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Prelude to Pearl Harbor by John Gripentrog Pdf

In this absorbing account of the origins of the Asia-Pacific War, historian John Gripentrog argues that competing ideologies of world order—chiefly the rift between liberal internationalism and Pan-Asian regionalism—lay at the heart of the conflict. Drawing from a rich diversity of primary and secondary sources, the author also examines the Japanese government’s vigorous cultural diplomacy in the U.S., which sought to win over American hearts and minds and soft-pedal its imperialist ambitions in Asia. The result is a book that both challenges and amplifies standard interpretations of US-Japan relations in the interwar era, while weaving diplomatic, political, intellectual, and cultural history. Moreover, the author’s wide-angle lens offers readers insights into a fascinating assemblage of historical actors—from Japanese and American diplomats, politicians, and military leaders, to cosmopolitan art enthusiasts and major league baseball players.

Author : Gerald E. Wheeler
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787205987

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Prelude to Pearl Harbor by Gerald E. Wheeler Pdf

First published in 1963, Prelude to Pearl Harbor was the first of three books on naval topics for which Prof. Gerald E. Wheeler is remembered today. “During the years 1921 to 1931 American naval leaders faced a problem in some ways similar to the situation after 1947. They were convinced that the United States had a national enemy in Japan. But the United States Congress, like the public that elected it during the 1920’s, was less than impressed; in fact it was positively hostile to any suggestion that America might again go to war. The President and his executive departments—save perhaps the War Department—were also reluctant to accept the Navy’s conclusions or its premises. How the United States Navy solved its problem of preparing for war in an unsympathetic climate of opinion is the story here presented.”—Prof. Wheeler, Preface

Author : Abraham Ben-Zvi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081306990

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Prelude to Pearl Harbor by Abraham Ben-Zvi Pdf

Author : Roy M. Stanley
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010400201

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Prelude to Pearl Harbor by Roy M. Stanley Pdf

Author : John Gripentrog
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1538149435

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Prelude to Pearl Harbor by John Gripentrog Pdf

Reconsidering the origins of WWII in Asia and the Pacific, this book focuses on interactions between the United States and Japan during the interwar period. Challenging and amplifying accepted interpretations, Gripentrog argues that competing ideologies--chiefly the rift between internationalism and Pan-Asianism--was at the heart of the conflict.

Author : Hamilton Darby Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015000658594

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The Panay Incident by Hamilton Darby Perry Pdf

Recounts the events and effects of the Japanese sinking of an American gunboat in the Yangtze River in 1937.

Author : Hamilton Darby Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1330047846

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The Panay Incident : Prelude to Pearl Harbor by Hamilton Darby Perry Pdf

Author : Takuma Melber
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509537211

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Pearl Harbor by Takuma Melber Pdf

Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: 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 18 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 centre of his account. This is the dimension commonly missing in most other histories of Pearl Harbor, and it gives Melber the opportunity to provide a fuller, more definitive and authoritative account of the battle, its background and its consequences. Melber sheds new light on the long negotiations that went on between the Japanese and Americans in 1941, and the confusion and argument among the Japanese political and military elite. He shows how US intelligence and military leaders in Washington failed to interpret correctly the information they had and to draw the necessary conclusions about the Japanese war intentions in advance of the attack. His account of the battle itself is informed by the latest research and benefits from including the planning and post-raid assessment by the Japanese commanders. His account also covers the second raid in March 1942 by two long-range seaplanes which was intended to destroy the shipyards so that ships damaged in the initial attack could not be repaired. This balanced and thoroughly researched book deepens our understanding of the battle that precipitated America’s entry into the war and it will appeal to anyone interested in World War II and military history.

Author : Jeff Shaara
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593129623

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To Wake the Giant by Jeff Shaara Pdf

The New York Times bestselling master of military historical fiction tells the story of Pearl Harbor as only he can in the first novel of a gripping new series set in World War II’s Pacific theater. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan’s ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, who wage their own war of conquest across Europe. Meanwhile, the British stand nearly alone against Hitler, and there is pressure in Washington to transfer America’s powerful fleet of warships from Hawaii to the Atlantic to join the fight against German U-boats that are devastating shipping. But despite deep concerns about weakening the Pacific fleet, no one believes that the main base at Pearl Harbor is under any real threat. Told through the eyes of widely diverse characters, this story looks at all sides of the drama and puts the reader squarely in the middle. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull must balance his own concerns between President Roosevelt and the Japanese ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, who is little more than a puppet of his own government. In Japan, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto wins skeptical approval for his outrageous plans in the Pacific, yet he understands more than anyone that an attack on Pearl Harbor will start a war that Japan cannot win. In Hawaii, Commander Joseph Rochefort’s job as an accomplished intelligence officer is to decode radio signals and detect the location of the Japanese fleet, but when the airwaves suddenly go silent, no one has any idea why. And from a small Depression-ravaged town, nineteen-year-old Tommy Biggs sees the Navy as his chance to escape and happily accepts his assignment, every sailor’s dream: the battleship USS Arizona. With you-are-there immediacy, Shaara opens up the mysteries of just how Japan—a small, deeply militarist nation—could launch one of history’s most devastating surprise attacks. In this story of innocence, heroism, sacrifice, and unfathomable blindness, Shaara’s gift for storytelling uses these familiar wartime themes to shine a light on the personal, the painful, the tragic, and the thrilling—and on a crucial part of history we must never forget.

Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451660517

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Pearl Harbor by Craig Nelson Pdf

“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” (Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.

Author : M Albert Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798643604006

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Prelude to Pearl by M Albert Collins Pdf

After the conclusion of the "Great War," the United States looked with growing apprehension at Japan's escalating territorial expansion amid the worldwide political turmoil engendered by the "Great Depression." To obtain secret information on the plans and objectives of a potential Pacific adversary, U.S. Navy intelligence sends Francis Marian, a young sailor with a near-perfect photographic memory and unusual Chinese and Japanese language skills, to the Philippines. Francis is soon drawn into a conflicting, complex world of clandestine negotiations and secret and dangerous missions in China, Japan, and Indo-China. But the United States is not the only world power seeking information on Japan's plans for supremacy in the Pacific. Hitler's Germany, in its embryonic pursuit of world domination, sends Willy Rosin, posing as the international businessman Werner Breidstein, to the Philippines to determine if Japan can be a viable ally or will become only an impediment to German hegemony in the Pacific. Breidstein's mission transforms into a distorted quest for personal power and revenge of his mother's suspicious death when Willy was a young boy in the Philippines. Breidstein leaves a trail of ruthless murder as he and Marian trust and parry across the lands of the Orient, from China to Japan, to Indo-China, to the islands of Micronesia, and to the Philippines, as Japan is inexorably drawn closer and closer to war with the United States. Shinako Fujimori, a young, innocent Japanese woman, is betrayed by an ambitious Japanese naval officer she expected to marry, but finds solace with Breidstein after her father is assassinated. But she will be betrayed by some. Seeking revenge for her father's murder, she unwittingly becomes instrumental in both Francis and Breidstein separately learning that Japan will attack Pearl Harbor within only hours. As the two men clash in the ensuing hours, startling secrets will be revealed.

Author : John C. Davenport
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : 9781438104331

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The Attack on Pearl Harbor by John C. Davenport Pdf

Traces events leading up to and resulting from the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on American battleships at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II.

Author : Alan D. Zimm
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612001975

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Attack on Pearl Harbor by Alan D. Zimm Pdf

ÒNothing previously published has offered such a close examination of Japanese strategy . . . an in-depth study of the Japanese planning, preparation and execution of the attack with particular focus on factors not thoroughly considered by other historians, if at all . . . detailed analyses that lead to a much better understanding of what the Japanese did, why they did it, and especially how the attack was very nearly an abject failure instead of a stunning success."ÑNaval Institute Proceedings "For seven decades, conventional wisdom has extolled the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as brilliant in its planning and execution . . . this masterful analysis topples that pillar of Pacific War history . . . with its amazing depth of meticulous research and analysis, this forceful book is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Pearl Harbor."ÑWorld War II "The first militarily professional description of the Pearl Harbor attack, and for those who are serious about military history and operations, it is a joy to read. . . . a superb military analysis of the attack . . . not only renders all other histories of Pearl Harbor obsolete, it has set the bar high for other histories of the Pacific War."ÑWar In History

Author : Steve Twomey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476776484

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Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Twomey Pdf

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy, "--NoveList.

Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756555948

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Pearl Harbor by Stephanie Fitzgerald Pdf

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.