World War II in the Pacific (eBook, ePUB)

An Encyclopedia
Redaktion: Sandler, Stanley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

All levels of this world-altering conflict are comprehensively treated
Word War Ii in the Pacific lasted forty-five months and caused tens of thousands of battle casualties. This reference features a sweeping array of topics that go beyond battles and hardware and address everything from high policy-making, grand strategy, and the significant persons and battles in the conflict to the organization of Allied and Japanese divisions, aircraft, armor, artillery, psychological warfare, warships, and the home fronts. The audience for the book will vary greatly as well: from younger students who need information about the conflict to military buffs and historians.
Encompasses the complete history of the war
Conflicts of great magnitude are by no means self-contained, either historically or in their outcomes. Recognizing this fact, the volume covers not only the actual course of this vast war, but the factors involved in its inception, as well as the consequence of the war and the occupation of Japan itself.
A reading experience unparalleled by other reference works
Although the work covers scores of varying topics, it weaves them together and evokes their intersections, providing an overall view that enables the reader to grasp the true nature of such a widespread conflict. Terms that may be unfamiliar to the non-expert are explained.
Special features
*The only encyclopedia specifically devoted to World War II in the Pacific.
*From policy-making to warships, every level of the war is covered.
*Comprehensive index of topics, weapons, and persons.
*Edited by a premiere military historian.
*More than 300 contributions by some 200 top scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135581992
• Artikelnr.: 38250874

Autorenporträt

Stanley Sandler is one of America's best-known military historians. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London Department of War Studies, where he studied under the eminent military historian Sir Michael Howard. He was a Command historian for the US Army Special Operations Command for fourteen years and was a Visiting Professor in the History of Sea Power at the US Naval Academy. He will hold the Edwin Conquest '14 Chair in history at Virginia Military Institute, 1999-2000. Dr. Sandler has received numerous academic and professional awards, including a New York State Regents' Teaching Fellowship, a Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a Secretary of the Army Research and Writing Fellowship. His publications include The Emergence of The ModernCapital Ship (1979), Segregated Skies: The All-blackUSAAF Squadrons of World War II (1992), The Korean War: AnEncyclopedia (Garland, 1995), and numerous articles in military history.

Inhaltsangabe

A
ABDA Command
Aerial Resupply
African American Troops
A-Go Plan
Air Force, Royal
Air Force, Royal Australian
Air Offensive, Japan
Aircraft: Japanese, U.S., and British
Aircraft Carrier Raids, U.S. Navy (1942)
Aircraft Carriers: Japanese, U.S., and British
Alamo Scouts
Aleutian Islands Campaign
Americal Division
American Volunteer Group
Amphibious Operations
Armor, U.S.
Army, Japanese
Army, U.S.-Filipino
Army Air Corps/Air Forces, U.S.
Army Air Force, Japanese
Army Ground Forces, U.S.
Arnold, Henry Harley ("Hap") (1886-1950)
Artillery, Japanese
Artillery, U.S.
Atomic Bomb, Decision to Use against Japan
Atomic Bomb Program, Japanese
Australia
B
Bataan Death March
Battleships
Bengal Famine
Biak, Battle for
Bismarck Sea, Battle of the
Bliuhker, Vasilii Konstantinovich (1890-1938)
Bomb Balloons, Japanese
Bombing of Civilians
Borneo, Allied Operations against
Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897-1945)
Bougainville, U.S. Operations against
Brown, Wilson (1882-1957)
Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973)
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr. (1886-1945)
Bulkeley, John Duncan (1911-1996)
Buna, Operations at
Burma
British Reconquest
Burma Road
Bushido
C
Cabanatuan Raid
Canada
Carrier Raids
Carriers
Cavite
Ceylon
Chaplains, U.S. Army
Chennault, Claire Lee (1893-1958)
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)
China-Burma-India Theater of Operations
Chindits
Chinese Communists versus Nationalists
Clark and Iba Airfields, Japanese Bombing of
Coastwatchers
Comfort Women
Communists
Coral Sea, Battle of the
Corregidor
D
Darwin, Japanese Bombing of
Detachment 101
Dive-Bombers
Doolittle (Tokyo) Raid
Downfall, Operation
Driniumor River Operation
Drought, James M.
Dutch East Indies
E
Eastern Solomons, Battle of
Eichelberger, Robert Lawrence (1886-1961)
Engineers, Allied Services
Eniwetok
"Europe First" Decision
F
Fertig, Wendell W.
Fiji
Film Treatment of the Pacific War, U.S.
Forrestal, James (1892-1949)
Franco-Thai War
Fraser, Bruce A. (1888-1981)
French Indochina
G
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948)
Gilbert Islands
Goodenough Island
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Grenades and Land Mines, Japanese
Grenades and Land Mines, U.S.
Guadalcanal, Battle for
Gurkhas
H
Halsey, William Frederick, Jr. (1882-1959)
Hart, Thomas C.
Hata Shunroku (1876-1962)
Hirohito (1901-1989)
Hiroshima
Historiography of the Pacific War
History Program, Japanese Air Force
History Program, Japanese Military
History Program, U.S. Army Military
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Holcomb, Thomas (1879-1965)
Hollandia
Home Front, Japanese
Home Front, U.S.
Homma Masaharu (1887-1946)
Hong Kong
Hurley, Patrick J. (1883-1963)
I
Iba Airfield
Ichigo, Operation
Imperial Japanese Army
Imphal and Kohima, Battles of
India
Indian National Army
Indianapolis
Intelligence in the Pacific Theater
Intelligence Operations, Japanese
Internment and Relocation of Italian Americans
Internment of U.S. Citizens of Japanese Ancestry
Island-Hopping and Leapf frogging, U.S. Strategies
Italian Americans
Iwabuchi Sanji (d. 1945)
Iwakuro Hideo
Iwo Jima, Battle of
J
Japan, Occupation of
Jet and Rocket Aircraft, Japanese
Journalistic Coverage of the Pacific War, U.S.
K
Kamikazes
Kelly, Colin (1915-1941)
Kempeitai
Kenney, George C. (1889-1977)
Kimmel, Husband Edward (1882-1968)
King, Edward P. (1884-1958)
King, Ernest J. (1878-1956)
Knox, Frank (1874-1944)
Kobayashi lchizo
Konoe Fumimaro (1891-1945)
Korea and Koreans
Krueger, Walter (1881-1967)
Kurile Islands
Kurusu Saburo
Kwantung Army
L
Laurel, José Paciano (1891-1959)
Leahy, William D. (1875-1959)
LeMay, Curtis (1906-1990)
Lexington
Leyte Gulf, Battle of
Lim, Vicente (1888-1944/45)
Logistics, Japanese
Logistics, U.S.
Los Baños Raid
M
MacArthur , Douglas (1880-1964)
Madagascar, Allied Invasion of
Magic, Operation
Makin Atoll
Malaria
Malaya, Japanese Conquest of
Manchuria
Manila, Fall of
Marine Corps, U.S.
Marshall, George Catlett 1943-1945
Matsuoka Yosuke (1880-1946)
Matterhorn, Operation
Merrill's Marauders (Galahad)
Midway, Battle of
Mikawa Gunichi
Miles, Milton E. (1900-1961)
Mitscher, Marc Andrew (1887-1947)
Mountbatten, Louis (1900-1979)
Mukden Incident
N
Nagasaki
Nagumo Chuichi (1887-1944)
Nanking, "Rape" of
National Guard of the United States
Nationalist Army, Chinese
Natives, Pacific Islands
Nauru
Navajo Code Talkers
Navy, Japanese
Navy, Royal
Navy, U.S.
Netherlands East Indies
New Britain
New Caledonia
New Georgia
New Guinea
New Zealand
Nimitz, Chester William (1885-1966)
Noemf foor Island
Nomura Kichisaburo (1877-1964)
Nurses
O
Office of Strategic Services, Detachment 101
Of fice of Strategic Services in the Pacific
Oil, Role of in the Pacific War
Okinawa, Battle for
Osmeña, Sergio (1878-1961)
Ozawa Jisaburo (1886-1966)
P
Pacific War Medicine
Palau
Panay
Pearl Harbor, Japanese Attack on
Pearl Harbor Conference
People's Liberation Army
Philippines, Anti-Japanese Guerrillas in
Philippines, Fall of the
Pick, Lewis A. (1890-1956)
Prince of Wales and Repulse, Sinking of
Prisoners of War
Prophets of the Pacific War
Psychological Warfare, Japan
Psychological Warfare, U.S.
Q
Quezon, Manuel (1878-1944)
R
Rangers
Romulo, Carlos P. (1899-1985)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)
Roxas, Manuel (1892-)
Russell Islands
S
Saipan, Battle of
Santa Cruz Islands, Battle of
Sato Naotake (b. 1882)
Savo Island, Battle of
Scouts, Philippine
Shepherd, Lemuel C., Jr. (1896-1990)
Shipbuilding, U.S.
Sh?-Go Plan
Short, Walter Campbell(1880-1949)
Singapore, Fall of
Slim, William Joseph (1891-1970)
Small Arms, Japanese
Small Arms, U.S.
Smith, Holland McTyeire (1882-1967)
Sorge, Richard (1895-1944)
Soviet Operations against Japan
Spruance, Raymond Ames (1886-1969)
Stereotypes, Japanese and American
Stilwell, Joseph Warren (1883-1946)
Stimson, Henry Lewis (1867-1950)
Submarines, Japanese
Submarines, U.S.
Sutherland, Richard K.
T
Taiwan (Formosa)
Tarawa, Capture of
Terauchi Hisaichi (d. 1946)
Thailand
Tinian, Battle for
Tokyo Fire Raid
Tokyo Rose
Tongan Army Self Def fense Forces
Torpedo, Long Lance (Japanese)
Tripartite Pact of 1940
Truk
Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)
U
U-Boats in the Pacific
United Nations
V
Vandegrift, Alexander A. (1887-1973)
W
Wakde-Sarmi
Wake Island, Battle of
War Artist
Washington Naval Treaty (1922) and Japan
Wedemeyer, Albert Coady (1897-1989)
Wingate, Orde C. (1909-1944)
Women's Army Corps
Y
Yalta Conference
Yamamoto Isoroku (1884-1943)
Yamashita Tomoyuki (1885-1946)
Yank
Z
Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich (1896-1974)