Waldo Heinrichs, Marc Gallicchio

Implacable Foes

War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this history of the last year of the war in the Pacific, award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio examine all the issues facing the Allies in their fight against the Japanese, and whether unconditional surrender was inevitable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 744
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 171mm x 57mm
• Gewicht: 1079g
• ISBN-13: 9780190616755
• ISBN-10: 019061675X
• Artikelnr.: 47863511

Autorenporträt

Waldo Heinrichs is Dwight E. Stanford Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University. He is the author of American Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition, which won the Allan Nevins Prize. Marc Gallicchio is a Professor of History at Villanova University and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in Japan, 1998-1999 and 2004-2005. He is the author of The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945, which won the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell book prize.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Gaining Power and Momentum Against Japan
2. The New Guinea Campaign
3. The Marianas Campaign
4. Leyte: Setting the End Game
5. The Philippines Campaign
6. Beyond Human Endurance
7. Iwo Jima
8. Okinawa
9. Two Down and One to Go
10. "My Hardest Decision to Date. "
11. The Meaning of Victory
12. Conclusion: "The Capitulation of Hirohito Saved Our Necks "