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Using previously neglected archives of firsthand accounts, Dan van der Vat interweaves eyewitness testimony with sharp, analytic narrative in a vivid account of the war in the Pacific. Filled with startling new insights, he examines strategic and political aspects of the war, on both sides and at all levels. 24 pages of photographs.
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Using previously neglected archives of firsthand accounts, Dan van der Vat interweaves eyewitness testimony with sharp, analytic narrative in a vivid account of the war in the Pacific. Filled with startling new insights, he examines strategic and political aspects of the war, on both sides and at all levels. 24 pages of photographs.
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Atria Books
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1992
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 549g
- ISBN-13: 9780671792176
- ISBN-10: 0671792172
- Artikelnr.: 21809442
- Verlag: Atria Books
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1992
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 549g
- ISBN-13: 9780671792176
- ISBN-10: 0671792172
- Artikelnr.: 21809442
Dan van der Vat is the author of The Atlantic Campaign, The Ship That Changed the World, Gentlemen of War, and The Grand Scuttle. He lives in London, England.
Contents
LIST OF MAPS
Preface
The Rise of Japan
Introduction
US errs
Japan strikes
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Guam
Wake Island
British battleships sunk
PART I
COLLISION COURSE
Chapter 1
The View from the East
Japan expands
German alliance
Japanese militarism
Hirohito
the Navy
Manchuria
the Army revolts
"China Incident"
clashes with Russia
autarky and reform
US reacts
Japan takes the southern option
Yamamoto
US overreacts
the junta goes to war
Chapter 2
The View from the West
Origins of World War II
US neutrality
Washington Conference
US isolationism
Roosevelt
US lntelligence
"Purple"
hunt for scapegoats
"Magic" and "Ultra"
who knew?
the Maryknoll mission
last talks
US war warning
war
PART II
JAPAN RAMPANT
Chapter 3
Japan Attacks
Churchill on the rack
British trounced in Malaya
Singapore falls
US Navy stretched
uncommon front from Burma to Australia
Japan's strategy
the "Zero" fighter
ABDA command
Dutch East Indies
Indian Ocean
Bataan and the "Death March"
Chapter 4
The Giant Awakes
US Admirals Kimmel
King
Nimitz
Halsey
US Navy hits back
Doolittle bombs Tokyo
US submarines
and dud torpedoes
Japan goes too far
General MacArthur, USA
Chapter 5
The Turn of the Tide
Junta dazed by its own success
what next?
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japan halted
Rochefort's intelligence
Battle of Midway
Admiral Spruance
Japan thrashed
US Aleutians seized
Chapter 6
Papua and Guadalcanal
US goes for Rabaul
gallant little Australia
General Sir Thomas Blamey
MacArthur takes over
Papua campaign
target southern Solomons
Marines land
Japanese counter
US disaster at Savo Island
US raid on Makin
"Tokyo Express"
Henderson Field
carriers clash
Japan reinforces
Chapter 7
At Sea in the Solomons
US reinforces
submarine I19
"Bloody Ridge"
battles in the Slot
Halsey takes over
Sergeant Basilone, USMC
US carriers hit
US admirals and cruisers lost
"L" for language
"Tenacious Tanaka"
know throe enemy
Japan withdraws from Guadalcanal and Papua
US torpedo debacle
PART III
AMERICA RESURGENT
Chapter 8
Intelligence Applied
Casablanca
Operation Cartwheel
crisis in Japan
Bismarck Sea battle
blood in the water
Yamamoto's last flight
code-breaking chaos
Japanese intelligence
a German view
Japan's substandard subs
Chapter 9
Birth of the Leapfrog
Aleutians regained
death of a pilot
Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea
up the Solomons ladder
bypass and leapfrog-Bougainville
New Britain
Japan trims
soldiers' gripes
conferences
Chapter 10
Hitting the Beaches
The Gilberts
shock of Tarawa
divided US command
the Marshalls invaded
Truk battered
Rabaul bypassed
sitting out the war
MacArthur leapfrogs
western New Guinea
Morotai
Chapter 11
The Marianas and the Great Turkey Shoot
US prepares
the B-29 bomber
Saipan
Philippine Sea battle
"Turkey Shoot"
Spruance blamed for winning
US Marines versus US Army
Nagumo's last stand
human lemmings
Tinian
Guam recovered
Tojo à gogo
US submarine heyday
wolfpacks and convoys
Japanese interservice rivalry
MacArthur shall return
Chapter 12
THE Philippines and Leyte Gulf
British return
Mindanao bypassed
"hitting 'em where they ain't"
more Morotai
Palau
Formosa
Leyte invaded
Mac back
kamikaze
Battle of Leyte Gulf
"The world wonders"
struggles ashore
Halsey's typhoon
Luzon
Chapter 13
"...Not Necessarily to Japan's Advantage..."
Bombing Japan
junta blames people
subs strangle Japan
Iwo Jima
flag up (twice)
Okinawa
supership Yamato sunk
US mighty, slow
Prime Minister Suzuki
death of FDR
Truman-the Bomb
USS Indianapolis
Potsdam Declaration
Hiroshima
enter the USSR
Nagasaki
surrender
the final score
MacArthur' s last word
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES
INDEX
LIST OF MAPS
Preface
The Rise of Japan
Introduction
US errs
Japan strikes
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Guam
Wake Island
British battleships sunk
PART I
COLLISION COURSE
Chapter 1
The View from the East
Japan expands
German alliance
Japanese militarism
Hirohito
the Navy
Manchuria
the Army revolts
"China Incident"
clashes with Russia
autarky and reform
US reacts
Japan takes the southern option
Yamamoto
US overreacts
the junta goes to war
Chapter 2
The View from the West
Origins of World War II
US neutrality
Washington Conference
US isolationism
Roosevelt
US lntelligence
"Purple"
hunt for scapegoats
"Magic" and "Ultra"
who knew?
the Maryknoll mission
last talks
US war warning
war
PART II
JAPAN RAMPANT
Chapter 3
Japan Attacks
Churchill on the rack
British trounced in Malaya
Singapore falls
US Navy stretched
uncommon front from Burma to Australia
Japan's strategy
the "Zero" fighter
ABDA command
Dutch East Indies
Indian Ocean
Bataan and the "Death March"
Chapter 4
The Giant Awakes
US Admirals Kimmel
King
Nimitz
Halsey
US Navy hits back
Doolittle bombs Tokyo
US submarines
and dud torpedoes
Japan goes too far
General MacArthur, USA
Chapter 5
The Turn of the Tide
Junta dazed by its own success
what next?
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japan halted
Rochefort's intelligence
Battle of Midway
Admiral Spruance
Japan thrashed
US Aleutians seized
Chapter 6
Papua and Guadalcanal
US goes for Rabaul
gallant little Australia
General Sir Thomas Blamey
MacArthur takes over
Papua campaign
target southern Solomons
Marines land
Japanese counter
US disaster at Savo Island
US raid on Makin
"Tokyo Express"
Henderson Field
carriers clash
Japan reinforces
Chapter 7
At Sea in the Solomons
US reinforces
submarine I19
"Bloody Ridge"
battles in the Slot
Halsey takes over
Sergeant Basilone, USMC
US carriers hit
US admirals and cruisers lost
"L" for language
"Tenacious Tanaka"
know throe enemy
Japan withdraws from Guadalcanal and Papua
US torpedo debacle
PART III
AMERICA RESURGENT
Chapter 8
Intelligence Applied
Casablanca
Operation Cartwheel
crisis in Japan
Bismarck Sea battle
blood in the water
Yamamoto's last flight
code-breaking chaos
Japanese intelligence
a German view
Japan's substandard subs
Chapter 9
Birth of the Leapfrog
Aleutians regained
death of a pilot
Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea
up the Solomons ladder
bypass and leapfrog-Bougainville
New Britain
Japan trims
soldiers' gripes
conferences
Chapter 10
Hitting the Beaches
The Gilberts
shock of Tarawa
divided US command
the Marshalls invaded
Truk battered
Rabaul bypassed
sitting out the war
MacArthur leapfrogs
western New Guinea
Morotai
Chapter 11
The Marianas and the Great Turkey Shoot
US prepares
the B-29 bomber
Saipan
Philippine Sea battle
"Turkey Shoot"
Spruance blamed for winning
US Marines versus US Army
Nagumo's last stand
human lemmings
Tinian
Guam recovered
Tojo à gogo
US submarine heyday
wolfpacks and convoys
Japanese interservice rivalry
MacArthur shall return
Chapter 12
THE Philippines and Leyte Gulf
British return
Mindanao bypassed
"hitting 'em where they ain't"
more Morotai
Palau
Formosa
Leyte invaded
Mac back
kamikaze
Battle of Leyte Gulf
"The world wonders"
struggles ashore
Halsey's typhoon
Luzon
Chapter 13
"...Not Necessarily to Japan's Advantage..."
Bombing Japan
junta blames people
subs strangle Japan
Iwo Jima
flag up (twice)
Okinawa
supership Yamato sunk
US mighty, slow
Prime Minister Suzuki
death of FDR
Truman-the Bomb
USS Indianapolis
Potsdam Declaration
Hiroshima
enter the USSR
Nagasaki
surrender
the final score
MacArthur' s last word
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES
INDEX
Contents
LIST OF MAPS
Preface
The Rise of Japan
Introduction
US errs
Japan strikes
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Guam
Wake Island
British battleships sunk
PART I
COLLISION COURSE
Chapter 1
The View from the East
Japan expands
German alliance
Japanese militarism
Hirohito
the Navy
Manchuria
the Army revolts
"China Incident"
clashes with Russia
autarky and reform
US reacts
Japan takes the southern option
Yamamoto
US overreacts
the junta goes to war
Chapter 2
The View from the West
Origins of World War II
US neutrality
Washington Conference
US isolationism
Roosevelt
US lntelligence
"Purple"
hunt for scapegoats
"Magic" and "Ultra"
who knew?
the Maryknoll mission
last talks
US war warning
war
PART II
JAPAN RAMPANT
Chapter 3
Japan Attacks
Churchill on the rack
British trounced in Malaya
Singapore falls
US Navy stretched
uncommon front from Burma to Australia
Japan's strategy
the "Zero" fighter
ABDA command
Dutch East Indies
Indian Ocean
Bataan and the "Death March"
Chapter 4
The Giant Awakes
US Admirals Kimmel
King
Nimitz
Halsey
US Navy hits back
Doolittle bombs Tokyo
US submarines
and dud torpedoes
Japan goes too far
General MacArthur, USA
Chapter 5
The Turn of the Tide
Junta dazed by its own success
what next?
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japan halted
Rochefort's intelligence
Battle of Midway
Admiral Spruance
Japan thrashed
US Aleutians seized
Chapter 6
Papua and Guadalcanal
US goes for Rabaul
gallant little Australia
General Sir Thomas Blamey
MacArthur takes over
Papua campaign
target southern Solomons
Marines land
Japanese counter
US disaster at Savo Island
US raid on Makin
"Tokyo Express"
Henderson Field
carriers clash
Japan reinforces
Chapter 7
At Sea in the Solomons
US reinforces
submarine I19
"Bloody Ridge"
battles in the Slot
Halsey takes over
Sergeant Basilone, USMC
US carriers hit
US admirals and cruisers lost
"L" for language
"Tenacious Tanaka"
know throe enemy
Japan withdraws from Guadalcanal and Papua
US torpedo debacle
PART III
AMERICA RESURGENT
Chapter 8
Intelligence Applied
Casablanca
Operation Cartwheel
crisis in Japan
Bismarck Sea battle
blood in the water
Yamamoto's last flight
code-breaking chaos
Japanese intelligence
a German view
Japan's substandard subs
Chapter 9
Birth of the Leapfrog
Aleutians regained
death of a pilot
Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea
up the Solomons ladder
bypass and leapfrog-Bougainville
New Britain
Japan trims
soldiers' gripes
conferences
Chapter 10
Hitting the Beaches
The Gilberts
shock of Tarawa
divided US command
the Marshalls invaded
Truk battered
Rabaul bypassed
sitting out the war
MacArthur leapfrogs
western New Guinea
Morotai
Chapter 11
The Marianas and the Great Turkey Shoot
US prepares
the B-29 bomber
Saipan
Philippine Sea battle
"Turkey Shoot"
Spruance blamed for winning
US Marines versus US Army
Nagumo's last stand
human lemmings
Tinian
Guam recovered
Tojo à gogo
US submarine heyday
wolfpacks and convoys
Japanese interservice rivalry
MacArthur shall return
Chapter 12
THE Philippines and Leyte Gulf
British return
Mindanao bypassed
"hitting 'em where they ain't"
more Morotai
Palau
Formosa
Leyte invaded
Mac back
kamikaze
Battle of Leyte Gulf
"The world wonders"
struggles ashore
Halsey's typhoon
Luzon
Chapter 13
"...Not Necessarily to Japan's Advantage..."
Bombing Japan
junta blames people
subs strangle Japan
Iwo Jima
flag up (twice)
Okinawa
supership Yamato sunk
US mighty, slow
Prime Minister Suzuki
death of FDR
Truman-the Bomb
USS Indianapolis
Potsdam Declaration
Hiroshima
enter the USSR
Nagasaki
surrender
the final score
MacArthur' s last word
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES
INDEX
LIST OF MAPS
Preface
The Rise of Japan
Introduction
US errs
Japan strikes
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Guam
Wake Island
British battleships sunk
PART I
COLLISION COURSE
Chapter 1
The View from the East
Japan expands
German alliance
Japanese militarism
Hirohito
the Navy
Manchuria
the Army revolts
"China Incident"
clashes with Russia
autarky and reform
US reacts
Japan takes the southern option
Yamamoto
US overreacts
the junta goes to war
Chapter 2
The View from the West
Origins of World War II
US neutrality
Washington Conference
US isolationism
Roosevelt
US lntelligence
"Purple"
hunt for scapegoats
"Magic" and "Ultra"
who knew?
the Maryknoll mission
last talks
US war warning
war
PART II
JAPAN RAMPANT
Chapter 3
Japan Attacks
Churchill on the rack
British trounced in Malaya
Singapore falls
US Navy stretched
uncommon front from Burma to Australia
Japan's strategy
the "Zero" fighter
ABDA command
Dutch East Indies
Indian Ocean
Bataan and the "Death March"
Chapter 4
The Giant Awakes
US Admirals Kimmel
King
Nimitz
Halsey
US Navy hits back
Doolittle bombs Tokyo
US submarines
and dud torpedoes
Japan goes too far
General MacArthur, USA
Chapter 5
The Turn of the Tide
Junta dazed by its own success
what next?
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japan halted
Rochefort's intelligence
Battle of Midway
Admiral Spruance
Japan thrashed
US Aleutians seized
Chapter 6
Papua and Guadalcanal
US goes for Rabaul
gallant little Australia
General Sir Thomas Blamey
MacArthur takes over
Papua campaign
target southern Solomons
Marines land
Japanese counter
US disaster at Savo Island
US raid on Makin
"Tokyo Express"
Henderson Field
carriers clash
Japan reinforces
Chapter 7
At Sea in the Solomons
US reinforces
submarine I19
"Bloody Ridge"
battles in the Slot
Halsey takes over
Sergeant Basilone, USMC
US carriers hit
US admirals and cruisers lost
"L" for language
"Tenacious Tanaka"
know throe enemy
Japan withdraws from Guadalcanal and Papua
US torpedo debacle
PART III
AMERICA RESURGENT
Chapter 8
Intelligence Applied
Casablanca
Operation Cartwheel
crisis in Japan
Bismarck Sea battle
blood in the water
Yamamoto's last flight
code-breaking chaos
Japanese intelligence
a German view
Japan's substandard subs
Chapter 9
Birth of the Leapfrog
Aleutians regained
death of a pilot
Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea
up the Solomons ladder
bypass and leapfrog-Bougainville
New Britain
Japan trims
soldiers' gripes
conferences
Chapter 10
Hitting the Beaches
The Gilberts
shock of Tarawa
divided US command
the Marshalls invaded
Truk battered
Rabaul bypassed
sitting out the war
MacArthur leapfrogs
western New Guinea
Morotai
Chapter 11
The Marianas and the Great Turkey Shoot
US prepares
the B-29 bomber
Saipan
Philippine Sea battle
"Turkey Shoot"
Spruance blamed for winning
US Marines versus US Army
Nagumo's last stand
human lemmings
Tinian
Guam recovered
Tojo à gogo
US submarine heyday
wolfpacks and convoys
Japanese interservice rivalry
MacArthur shall return
Chapter 12
THE Philippines and Leyte Gulf
British return
Mindanao bypassed
"hitting 'em where they ain't"
more Morotai
Palau
Formosa
Leyte invaded
Mac back
kamikaze
Battle of Leyte Gulf
"The world wonders"
struggles ashore
Halsey's typhoon
Luzon
Chapter 13
"...Not Necessarily to Japan's Advantage..."
Bombing Japan
junta blames people
subs strangle Japan
Iwo Jima
flag up (twice)
Okinawa
supership Yamato sunk
US mighty, slow
Prime Minister Suzuki
death of FDR
Truman-the Bomb
USS Indianapolis
Potsdam Declaration
Hiroshima
enter the USSR
Nagasaki
surrender
the final score
MacArthur' s last word
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES
INDEX