The Pacific War: Japan Versus the Allies
- ISBN-10
- 0275951022
- ISBN-13
- 9780275951023
- Series
- The Pacific War
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Alan J. Levine
Description
Nineteen ninety-five is a year of celebration and remembrance of the Axis collapse that signaled the end of the Second World War. In August, the world will mark the 50th anniversary of V-J Day. Particularly important, then, is this new historical study o the Pacific phase of World War War II that coers not just the military, but also the political side of the war. Rejecting recent trends that tend to whitewash or demonize the Japanese, this book casts new light on many controversial issues from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. It treats the submarine campaign, the air attacks on Japan, the use of the atomic bombs, and Japan's surrender in unusual detail. Finally, it emphasizes that the war was primarily a struggle for the air and sea.
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