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3) Pearl Harbor
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A highly-designed and illustrated (including graphic novel panels) overview the truths and lies about the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
7) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
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Language
English
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A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy,"--NoveList.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Article Nine of Japan's postwar constitution, drafted in 1946 under U.S. Occupation, claims that the Japanese people "forever renounce the use of force as a means of settling international disputes." During the Cold War, the alliance with the United States allowed Japan to develop a largely defensive military, the Self-Defense Forces. Yet in the decades since, Japan has considered new ways to use its military. Demands from Washington for greater Japanese...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister. The military had a stranglehold on the government. War with Russia loomed, and propaganda campaigns swept the country, urging schoolchildren to give money to procure planes and tanks. Into this maelstrom stepped Joseph C. Grew, America's most experienced and talented diplomat. When Grew was appointed to serve as ambassador to Japan, not only was the country in turmoil,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s-and the potential crisis that awaits them Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history...
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