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War without Mercy

John Dower
War without Mercy Book PDF

Author : John Dower
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307816146

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”

Pacific Campaign

Dan Van der Vat
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Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671792176

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Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

The Pacific Campaign in World War II

William Bruce Johnson
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Author : William Bruce Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134003822

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This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished documents this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific.

The Pacific War

William B. Hopkins
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Author : William B. Hopkins
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616732400

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This “important comprehensive study” of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory (Roanoke Times). Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological narratives. In The Pacific War, William B. Hopkins, a Marine Corps veteran of the Pacific war and respected military history author, opens the story of the Pacific campaign to a broader and deeper view. Hopkins investigates the strategies, politics, and personalities that shaped the fighting. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land, sea, and air offers an insightful perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific, and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island, Hopkins’ account offers a fresh way of understanding the hows—and more significantly, the whys—of the Pacific War.

The Pacific War

John Costello
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Author : John Costello
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0688016200

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John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Aleutians been so brilliantly woven together to provide a clear account of one of the most massive movements of men and arms in history. The complex social, political, and economic causes that underlay the war are here carefully analyzed, impelling the reader to see it as the inevitable conclusion to a series of historical events. And the bloody fighting that indelibly recorded names like Midway and Iwo Jima in the annals of human conflict is described in detail, through its ominous conclusion in the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Pacific Campaign

Dan Van der Vat
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Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0340496614

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Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

The Great Pacific War

Hector C. Bywater
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Author : Hector C. Bywater
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
ISBN : 9781557095572

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The Great Pacific War by Hector C. Bywater Pdf

This gripping blow-by-blow account of a war between the United States and Japan, originally published in 1925, predicted actual events. Writing 16 years before the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Bywater, the world's leading naval authority in the period between the two world wars, prophesied a Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. in the Pacific, while simultaneously invading the Phillippines and Guam.

Japan's Pacific War

Peter Williams
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Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526796134

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‘I had no qualms fighting the Australians, just as I have killed without remorse any of the Emperor’s enemies: the British, the Americans and the Dutch’, so admits Takahiro Sato in this ground-breaking oral history of Japan’s Pacific War. Thanks to years of research and over 100 interviews with veterans, the Author has compiled a fascinating collection of personal accounts by former Japanese soldiers, sailors and airmen. Their candid views are often provocative and shocking. There are admissions of brutality, the killing of prisoners and cannibalism. Stark descriptions of appalling conditions and bitter fighting blend with descriptions of family life. Their views on the prowess of the enemy differ with some like air ace Kazuo Tsunoda who believed the Australians ‘worthy’. Some remain unrepentant while others such as Hideo Abe are ashamed of his part in Japan’s war of aggression. The result is a revealing insight into the minds of a ruthless and formidable enemy which provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the Second World War.

The First South Pacific Campaign

John B Lundstrom
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Author : John B Lundstrom
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513522

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On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese met in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Coral Sea. A strategic victory for the U.S. despite the loss of the carrier Lexington, the battle blunted the Japanese drive on Port Moresby, a valuable Allied air base on the island of New Guinea. Lundstrom offers a detailed analysis of the fundamental strategies employed by Japan and the U.S. in the South Pacific from January to June 1942, the efforts of Adm. Ernest J. King to reinforce the area in spite of Roosevelt’s Europe First grand strategy and Adm.Chester Nimitz's aggressive plans to fight in the Coral Sea. Now in paperback, The First Pacific Campaign provides a superb overview of the crucial first six months of the naval war in the South Pacific.

Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War

Noriko Kawamura
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Author : Noriko Kawamura
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806310

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Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War by Noriko Kawamura Pdf

This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a crucial role in ending the war in 1945? Drawing on previously unavailable primary sources, Noriko Kawamura traces Hirohito�s actions from the late 1920s to the end of the war, analyzing the role Hirohito played in Japan�s expansion. Emperor Hirohito emerges as a conflicted man who struggled throughout the war to deal with the undefined powers bestowed upon him as a monarch, often juggling the contradictory positions and irreconcilable differences advocated by his subordinates. Kawamura shows that he was by no means a pacifist, but neither did he favor the reckless wars advocated by Japan�s military leaders.

Pacific Legacy

Gerald A. Meehi,Rex Alan Smith
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Author : Gerald A. Meehi,Rex Alan Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780789213334

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Pacific Legacy by Gerald A. Meehi,Rex Alan Smith Pdf

The classic photo book about the battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater then and now—updated with new information about the preservation and accessibility of these historic sites. Pacific Legacy offers an unprecedented record of the relics of World War II that have survived on the islands of the Pacific: American landing craft rusting on the reefs where they were stopped by enemy fire; shell-pocked Japanese fortifications; fallen aircraft overgrown by jungle; packed-coral landing strips still as good as new. These evocative color images are paired with archival photographs that show the same tropical battlegrounds as they appeared in wartime. The text covers the entire war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to Japan’s surrender in Tokyo Bay. The principal battles are recounted hour-by-hour, drawing heavily on firsthand accounts. This vivid narrative helps the reader visualize what it was really like to be at war in the Pacific, doggedly island-hopping to victory.

The Pacific Campaign

Dan Van der Vat
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Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1841581232

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The author explores the naval conflict in the Pacific from Pearl harbour to Leyte Gulf, from Midway to Okinawa. He tells the story of the fatal misunderstanding between America and Japan, and describes the cabinet meetings and military strategy of the complex campaign.

Fire and Fortitude

John C. McManus
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Author : John C. McManus
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698192768

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Fire and Fortitude by John C. McManus Pdf

WINNER OF THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die “This eloquent and powerful narrative is military history written the way it should be.”—James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the achievements of the Army ground troops," wrote one officer in the fall of 1943, "whereas the Marines are blown up to the skies." Even today, the Marines are celebrated as the victors of the Pacific, a reflection of a well-deserved reputation for valor. Yet the majority of fighting and dying in the war against Japan was done not by Marines but by unsung Army soldiers. John C. McManus, one of our most highly acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor—a rude awakening for a military woefully unprepared for war—to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and America evolved from an inward-looking nation into a global superpower. At the pinnacle of this richly told story are the generals: Douglas MacArthur, a military autocrat driven by his dysfunctional lust for fame and power; Robert Eichelberger, perhaps the greatest commander in the theater yet consigned to obscurity by MacArthur's jealousy; "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell, a prickly soldier miscast in a diplomat's role; and Walter Krueger, a German-born officer who came to lead the largest American ground force in the Pacific. Enriching the narrative are the voices of men otherwise lost to history: the uncelebrated Army grunts who endured stifling temperatures, apocalyptic tropical storms, rampant malaria and other diseases, as well as a fanatical enemy bent on total destruction. This is an essential, ambitious book, the first of three volumes, a compellingly written and boldly revisionist account of a war that reshaped the American military and the globe and continues to resonate today. INCLUDES MAPS AND PHOTOS

Goodbye, Darkness

William Manchester
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Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316054638

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This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man's experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during those dark times. The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer

The Pacific War Day by Day

John Davison
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Author : John Davison
Publisher : Zenith Imprint
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0760320675

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Fleet attacked Pearl Harbor, thus starting a war in the Pacific that would last four years, see Japan brought to her knees, and witness the first, and so far only, use of atomic bombs in warfare. The Pacific War Day by Day is a chronological, month-by-month approach to the conflict, allowing the reader to see at a glance the key battles on land, at sea ,and in the air, engagements such as Singapore, Tarawa Atoll, Guadalcanal, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Midway, Kohima, Imphal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Each major engagement is illustrated by a map for ease of understanding. In addition to the battles and campaigns, the book includes sidebars on all the main commanders. The Pacific War Day by Day includes entries on landing craft, aircraft carriers, carrier aircraft, long-range bombers, and amphibious landing techniques.- Encyclopedic guide to the World War II campaigns in the Pacific Theater- An excellent reference work- Continues the successful series covering World War IIAbout the AuthorJohn Davison is a freelance military writer. His areas of expertise are World War II, the Third Reich and modern special forces. He has written a number of articles on these subjects and has also contributed text to Ultimate Special Forces. He currently lives in Wales in the UK.Hardcover - 8-1/2" x 11" - 192 pp - 400 b/w'