Download or read book The Pacific War written by John Costello and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book La guerre du pacifique 1941 1945 written by Nicolas Bernard and published by Tallandier. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7 décembre 1941 : la flotte impériale japonaise bombarde la base américaine de Pearl Harbor, dans les îles Hawaii. La guerre devient mondiale. Le Pacifi que et l’Asie s’embrasent. Le Japon lie définitivement son sort à l’Allemagne nazie et à l’Italie fasciste. Ses armées s’étendent bientôt sur un vaste empire qui court de la Chine à l’Asie du Sud-Est, des portes de l’Inde aux îles du Pacifi que. Mais les Alliés parviendront à briser cette expansion, avant d’entamer une vaste contre-offensive qui s’achèvera par l’horreur nucléaire d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki en 1945. Pour la première fois en France, le présent ouvrage explore la guerre du Pacifique dans tous ses aspects, de ses origines à son legs mémoriel qui divise toujours l’Asie. Grandes opérations, intrigues diplomatiques, mobilisation des civils rythment un récit retraçant la course folle de l’empire japonais vers sa chute.
Download or read book La Guerre du Pacifique 1941 1945 written by Ronald H. Spector and published by Editions Albin Michel. This book was released on 1987 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La guerre du Pacifique written by Hedley Paul Willmott and published by Editions Autrement. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Au matin du 7 décembre 1941, après une campagne prolongée contre la Chine, le Japon finissait par s'attaquer aux Etats-Unis en frappant Pearl Harbor. Pendant les cinq mois qui suivirent, les forces japonaises conduisirent des opérations navales sur sept fuseaux horaires différents et infligèrent à leurs ennemis une série d'écrasantes défaites. Leur avance, qui suivait un plan méticuleusement préparé, semblait impossible à arrêter ; Birmanie, Malaisie, Indes orientales, Hong Kong et Philippines étaient toutes tombées aux mains des japonais en avril 1942. Ces victoires japonaises s'interrompirent au mois de juin 1942. A partir de la bataille disputée au large des îles Midway, les forces de la Marine américaine rendirent coup pour coup. Dans cet ouvrage abondamment illustré, H. P. Willmott prend comme point de départ l'invasion de la Mandchourie en 1931 et la "guerre spéciale non déclarée" du Japon contre la Chine en 1937. Il analyse ensuite l'opposition grandissante entre Japon et Occident qui culmina par le bombardement de Pearl Harbor en 1941. Le récit historique couvre tous les aspects de la guerre, depuis les coulisses politiques et idéologiques jusqu'aux succès tactiques ou aux erreurs des deux camps, et s'achève par la description d'Hiroshima et de Nagasaki dévastées après l'utilisation des premières bombes atomiques.
Download or read book The Pacific War written by Andrew A. Wiest and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific War is a military history of this sweeping conflict, from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the dropping of the ato mic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945.
Download or read book Surrender and Survival written by E. Bartlett Kerr and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience of American POWs in the Pacific 1941-1945.
Download or read book Tonnerre Sur Le Pacifique De Pearl Harbor Hiroshima 1941 1945 With Plates and Maps written by Albert VULLIEZ and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S and the War in the Pacific 1941 1945 written by Sandra Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-45 analyzes the Pacific War with a focus on America's participation in the conflict. Fought over a great ocean and vast battlefields using the most sophisticated weapons available, the Pacific War transformed the modern world. Not only did it introduce the atomic bomb to the world, it also reshaped relations among nations and the ways in which governments dealt with their own peoples, changed the balance of power in the Pacific in fundamental ways, and helped to spark nationalist movements throughout Asia. This book examines the strategies, technologies, intelligence capabilities, home-front mobilization, industrial production, and resources that ultimately enabled the United States and its allies to emerge victorious. Major themes include the impact of war, conceptions of race, Japanese perspectives on the conflict, and America's relations with its allies. Using primary documents, maps, and concise writing, this book provides students with an accessible introduction to an important period in history. Incorporating recent scholarship and conflicting interpretations, the book provides an insightful overview of the topic for students of modern American history, World War II, and the Asia Pacific.
Download or read book From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima written by and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War In The Pacific 1941-1945 looks at the war against Japan in the Pacific Islands which formed an integral part of eventual Allied victory in World War II. Setting the scene with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the almost simultaneous attack on US bases on Guam and Wake Island, it then goes on to document the battles fought in the jungle islands of Guadalcanal and the Philippines and the seas of the Pacific. This war story is brought to life by the addition of carefully selected facsimile pieces of memorabilia ranging from military orders to propaganda leaflets dropped by the Japanese on US troops to the personal diaries and letters home of both generals, officers and ordinary soldiers.
Download or read book Science and the Pacific War written by Roy M. MacLeod and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War occasioned many reflections on the place of science and technology in the conflict. That the war ended with Allied victory in the Pacific theatre, inevitably focussed attention upon the Pacific region, and particularly upon the Manhattan project and its outcome. It was in the Pacific that Western physics and engineering gave birth to the Atomic Age. However, the Pacific war had also proved a testing time, and a testing space, for other disciplines and institutions. Extreme environments and opemtional distances, and the fundamental demands of logistics, required the Allies and the Japanese to innovate many scientific and technological practices. Just as medicine and botany were called upon to fight tropical diseases and insect pests, so engineers, anthropol ogists and geographers were called upon to understand local conditions and cli mates, and to work with local peoples whose traditional lives were changed forever by the experience. At the same time, the war played midwife to a host of new de velopments, not least in scientific intelligence and in chemical and biological weapons, which were to acquire far greater importance after 1945.
Download or read book Hirohito s War written by Francis Pike and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation of the Pacific War, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard narrative, in particular questioning popular assumptions about the origins and causes of the conflict and asking whether or not US victory was inevitable. This book represents the most comprehensive one-volume narrative of the conflict to date, and is structured to deal with regional and chronological contexts. It provides a valuable synthesis of the literature for students of the conflict and will fascinate anyone with an interest in the Second World War.
Download or read book Pacific Campaign written by Dan Van der Vat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
Download or read book Singapore 1941 1942 written by Allen Louis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill described the loss of Singapore as the greatest disaster ever to befall British arms. Louis Allen analyzes the remote political causes of the Japanese campaign, gives an account of the events of the campaign, and then attempts to apportion responsibility for the defeat.
Download or read book The Southwest Pacific Campaign 1941 1945 written by Eugene L. Rasor and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing comprehensive coverage of the literature on the Southwest Pacific Campaign of World War II, this book includes both a historiographical narrative and an annotated bibliography of over 1500 entries. Part I, the historiographical narrative, includes a general survey and review of the works listed in Part II, the annotated bibliography. The historiographical survey features critical analysis and an evaluation of the literature, makes an effort to place each work in context, and also points to gaps in the literature. The bibliography section includes descriptive and evaluative annotations. Works cited in Part I are cross-referenced to Part II. The book reviews, evaluates, and integrates a comprehensive collection of popular and scholarly literature on the Southwest Pacific Campaign. Coverage includes operations in all dimensions—land, sea, air, underwater, and combinations of these. The work covers personnel and their experiences, and includes memoirs, diaries, autobiographies, biographies, and oral histories. It also covers intelligence matters, diplomacy, logistics and supply, and cultural aspects, such as journalism, fiction, film, and art. Available archival, research, and library facilities and materials are also described. There is an introductory historical essay, a chronology, and comprehensive indexes.
Download or read book War in the Pacific 1941 1945 written by Richard Overy and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have anything like this yet! Check your collections. Never before has such a unique assembly of rare documents been available. WAR IN THE PACIFIC brings to life the story of the heroic actions of the men who fought the relentless war against Japan in World War II. Includes recorded memories, photographs, maps, and actual reproductions of 20 rare key documents and memorabilia: the dispatch to General MacArthur to abandon the Philippines, the “Pocket Guide to Australia” issued to US army and navy forces in 1942, and much more! WAR IN THE PACIFIC is being released to coincide with the much-anticipated 10-part mini-series coming from HBO in March. War In The Pacific 1941-1945 looks at the relentless war against Japan in the Pacific Islands which formed an integral part of eventual Allied victory in World War II. Setting the scene with the unprovoked Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the almost simultaneous attack on US bases on Guam and Wake Island, it then goes on to document the bloody battles fought in the jungle islands of Guadalcanal and the Philippines and the seas of the Pacific. As fortunes turned in 1942 the Allies fought hard to regain lost ground and the intensity of battle did not waver. It tells the story of the heroic actions of the men who toiled on the islands, the names of which have now become synonymous with bloodshed, hardship and unstoppable spirit which eventually resulted in victory for the Allies: Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Rabaul, Guam, Iwo Jima and finally Okinawa. This fascinating and heart-wrenching story is brought to life by the addition of 20 carefully selected facsimile pieces of memorabilia ranging from military orders to propaganda leaflets dropped by the Japanese on US troops to the personal diaries and letters home of both generals, officers and ordinary soldiers.
Download or read book France and the South Pacific since 1940 written by Robert Aldrich and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.
