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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Smith Thompson |
| ISBN: | 046508575X 9780465085750 0465070582 9780465070589 |
| OCLC Number: | 47623782 |
| Description: | xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: Washington, December 8, 1941 -- The Road to War -- The Fall of Imperial China -- Japan's Response to the West -- The Open Door -- New Order in East Asia -- The Road to Pearl Harbor -- Japan's Far-Flung Battle Line -- The Onslaught -- The Singapore Debacle -- Warriors of the Rising Sun -- But Not in Shame -- Midway -- The Receding of the Tide -- America Rising -- The Hammer and the Anvil -- Grand Strategy -- Unanswerable Strength -- Turning Points -- Recasting the Imperial Far East -- Yalta -- Return to the Colonies -- The New Taipans -- The Masters -- They Call It Peace -- Epilogue: World War II and the Road to Vietnam. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Smith Thompson. |
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Abstract:
A revisionist history of the Pacific Theater of World War II argues that the American goal during the conflict was to replace Britain as East Asia's new imperial power and that Japan was viewed as a threat to those plans.
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