Summary Of Charles Stephenson S Stalin S War On Japan

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Category : History
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Summary of Charles Stephenson's Stalin's War on Japan by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When the ‘Big Three’ - Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin - met at Yalta for the Argonaut Conference from 4 to 11 February 1945, the defeat of Nazi Germany was plainly imminent. American, British, Canadian, and French armies were advancing on Germany’s western border and had defeated the Ardennes counteroffensive. #2 The Agreement Regarding Entry of the Soviet Union into the War Against Japan was signed on 11 February 1945. It gave Stalin all he wanted, in return the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan two or three months after Germany has surrendered and the war in Europe has been terminated. #3 The final article of the agreement stated that the Kuril islands would be handed over to the Soviet Union. The Chinese government was not informed of these agreements, as Roosevelt feared security leaks would reinforce the heavily fortified border regions with the Soviet Union. #4 Stalin was a bloodthirsty tyrant, but he was also a realist who knew what he wanted and got it. He did not spring these demands unexpectedly. He had raised the points well beforehand, and it is doubtful that he deceived his allies into cajoling him into a war that he was all along determined to enter when the time was ripe.

Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526785954

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Stalin's War on Japan by Charles Stephenson Pdf

This WWII military study examines the critical yet overlooked Soviet offensive on Japan’s puppet state and its influence on winning the Pacific War. Did Japan surrender in 1945 because the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Or because of the crushing defeat inflicted by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in north-east China? In Stalin’s War on Japan, Charles Stephenson describes the Soviet offensive from the top-level decision-making and early planning stages to its decisive outcome on the ground. He also considers to what extent Japan’s capitulation is attributable to the atomic bomb or the stunningly successful entry of the Soviet Union into the conflict. Stephenson combines a vividly detailed narrative of the invasion itself with an absorbing account of the political and diplomatic process that gave rise to the offensive—with particular focus on the Yalta conference. There, Stalin allowed the Americans to persuade him to join the war in the east; a conflict he was determined on entering anyway. Stalin’s War on Japan sheds new light on the last act of the Second World War.

Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399051682

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Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War by Charles Stephenson Pdf

In early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist ‘Blackshirt’ Militia, Eritrean ascari and Somali dubats, invaded the independent state of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). It was an operation entirely of choice, the chooser being Il Duce: Benito Mussolini. The resultant conflict is often described as a colonial war. while it was certainly launched with the intent of turning Ethiopia into an Italian possession, it was in fact a war of aggression against an independent, sovereign, state with membership of the League of Nations. A state that had, according to one of its nineteenth-century rulers, been ‘for fourteen centuries a Christian island in a sea of pagans’. The swiftness of the Italian victory resulted from their possession and ruthless use of technology; most particularly aircraft, mustard gas, and motorisation/mechanisation. Since they were fighting an enemy who possessed none of these things, then they were able to wage, indeed inaugurate, what the prominent military theorist JFC Fuller dubbed ‘totalitarian warfare’ or, as it became known a few years later, total war. This, he opined, was the Fascist, the scientific, way of making war. In his considered view, the Fascist Army that waged it was ‘a scientific military instrument.’ This book examines that campaign in military and political terms.

Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1526702932

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The Siege of Tsingtau by Charles Stephenson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCR:31210012879043

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526702944

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The Siege of Tsingtau by Charles Stephenson Pdf

“A well-written, modern narrative of the political and military events leading up to, during and after the German-Japanese War of 1914.”—The Australian Naval Institute The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japan’s acquisition of Germany’s Micronesian islands. Japan’s naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States naval strategy of projecting force westward. The campaign to relieve Germany of Tsingtau, the port and naval base in China, and its hinterland posed a grave threat to Chinese independence. The course of the Second World War in China and the Pacific cannot be explained without reference to these events. Charles Stephenson’s account makes fascinating reading. The siege of Tsingtau by the Japanese, with token British participation, forms the core of his story. He draws on Japanese and German primary sources to describe the defenses, the landings, the course of the siege, and eventual German surrender. His study will be absorbing reading for anyone interested in the campaigns of the First World War outside of Europe, in German colonial expansion and the rise to power of Japan. “Overall the volume delivers a much needed, interesting and often highly detailed overview of operations in the Pacific and the siege of Tsingtau. The volume excels especially in its detailed narrative of naval and land operations in the Pacific and in China. The geopolitical background provides a most useful introduction to the history of the region.”—International Journal of Maritime History

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070861682

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The Journal of Military History by Anonim Pdf

Includes scholarly articles and book reviews on topics in military history.

Author : Stuart Goldman
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612510989

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Nomonhan, 1939 by Stuart Goldman Pdf

Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but intense Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian-Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and shaped the course of the war. The author draws on Japanese, Soviet, and western sources to put the seemingly obscure conflict—actually a small undeclared war— into its proper global geo-strategic perspective. The book describes how the Soviets, in response to a border conflict provoked by Japan, launched an offensive in August 1939 that wiped out the Japanese forces at Nomonhan. At the same time, Stalin signed the German—Soviet Nonaggression Pact, allowing Hitler to invade Poland. The timing of these military and diplomatic strikes was not coincidental, according to the author. In forming an alliance with Hitler that left Tokyo diplomatically isolated, Stalin succeeded in avoiding a two-front war. He saw the pact with the Nazis as a way to pit Germany against Britain and France, leaving the Soviet Union on the sidelines to eventually pick up the spoils from the European conflict, while at the same time giving him a free hand to smash the Japanese at Nomonhan. Goldman not only demonstrates the linkage between the Nomonhan conflict, the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, and the outbreak of World War II , but also shows how Nomonhan influenced Japan’s decision to go to war with the United States and thus change the course of history. The book details Gen. Georgy Zhukov’s brilliant victory at Nomonhan that led to his command of the Red Army in 1941 and his success in stopping the Germans at Moscow with reinforcements from the Soviet Far East. Such a strategy was possible, the author contends, only because of Japan’s decision not to attack the Soviet Far East but to seize the oil-rich Dutch East Indies and attack Pearl Harbor instead. Goldman credits Tsuji Masanobu, an influential Japanese officer who instigated the Nomonhan conflict and survived the debacle, with urging his superiors not to take on the Soviets again in 1941, but instead to go to war with the United States.

Author : Spencer C. Tucker,Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1860 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851098583

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World War II [5 volumes] [5 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker,Priscilla Roberts Pdf

Designed with the more visual needs of today's student in mind, this landmark encyclopedia covers the entire scope of the Second World War, from its earliest roots to its continuing impact on global politics and human society. Over 1,000 illustrations, maps, and primary source materials enhance the text and make history come alive for students and faculty alike. ABC-CLIO's World War II: A Student Encyclopedia captures the monumental sweep of the "Big One" with accessible scholarship, a student-friendly, image-rich design, and a variety of tools specifically crafted for the novice researcher. For teachers and curriculum specialists, it is a thoroughly contemporary and authoritative work with everything they need to enrich their syllabi and meet state and national standards. Ranging from the conflict's historic origins to VJ Day and beyond, it brings all aspects of the war vividly to life—its origins in the rubble of World War I, its inevitable outbreak, its succession of tumultuous battles and unforgettable personalities. Students will understand what the war meant to the leaders, the soldiers, and everyday families on home fronts around the world. Featured essays look at Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and other crucial events, as well as fascinating topics such as signals intelligence and the role of women in war. A separate primary source volume provides essential source material for homework, test preparation or special projects. With a wealth of new information and new ideas about the war's causes, course, and consequences, World War II will be the first place students turn for the who, what, when, where, and—more importantly—the why, behind this historic conflict.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UCAL:B3310049

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Ontario Library Review and Canadian Periodical Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541672772

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Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin Pdf

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PURD:32754066267687

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Seth A. Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506291604

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AP European History Premium, 2025: Prep Book with 5 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice by Seth A. Roberts Pdf

Be prepared for exam day with Barron’s. Trusted content from AP experts! Barron’s AP European History Premium, 2025 includes in‑depth content review and online practice. It’s the only book you’ll need to be prepared for exam day. Written by Experienced Educators Learn from Barron’s‑‑all content is written and reviewed by AP experts Build your understanding with comprehensive review tailored to the most recent exam Get a leg up with tips, strategies, and study advice for exam day‑‑it’s like having a trusted tutor by your side Be Confident on Exam Day Sharpen your test‑taking skills with 5 full‑length practice tests–2 in the book and 3 more online–plus detailed answer explanations, sample responses, and scoring guidelines for all questions Strengthen your knowledge with in‑depth review covering all Units on the AP European History Exam Reinforce your learning with long essay, short-answer, and multiple-choice practice questions at the end of each chapter Determine which topics you know well and which you need to brush up on with comprehensive practice assessments for each major time period in European History Robust Online Practice Continue your practice with 3 full‑length practice tests on Barron’s Online Learning Hub Simulate the exam experience with a timed test option Deepen your understanding with detailed answer explanations and expert advice Gain confidence with scoring to check your learning progress

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015036921461

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Ontario Library Review by Anonim Pdf

"Book selection guide" included in each number.

Author : David Glantz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135774998

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The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 by David Glantz Pdf

Volume I covers in detail the background, strategic regrouping, and strategic planning and conduct of the offensive.