The Second World War In The Far East

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Cassell
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 224 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Until its loss in World War II, Japan had not known failure in centuries of warfare. This record of the conflict goes beyond mere description to illuminate why Japan instigated a conflict with the only nation--the United States--capable of defeating her, as well as the crucial shifts in the nature of naval power and strategy that occurred during the fighting. Set off on the road to war, analyzing the effects of the first world conflict; Japans policies in China; the first victories, as Japan surges through Asia; the great battles of Midway and Guadacanal; and the final defeat, with the devastating launch of the first nuclear weapons. 224 pages, 70 color illus., 80 b/w illus., 7 3/4 x 10 3/8. Industry Reviews A mid-twentieth-century tragedy: how Japan first engaged in a war with China that could not be won, and then embarked on another against the USA (and the British and Dutch) that was certain to be lost. Splendid illustrations explain some of the main battles; an original text keeps producing new views on how and why the war was fought. M R D Foot is an historian. He is the author of SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940 - 1946. (Kirkus UK)

ISBN: 9780304352470