The Second World War (1)
The Pacific
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About this book
The war in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the atomic bombs on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to the surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. It was a war of great naval battles, such as those in the Coral Sea, at Midway, and at Leyte and of grim jungle battles, at Guadalcanal, New Guinea and Burma. This book explores the many facets of this complicated conflict, which reshaped the face of Asia and splintered forever European invincibility as a colonial power.
Contents
Introduction · Chronology · Background to war: The expansion of Imperial Japan, 1891-1941 · Warring sides: Poweful Japan faced certain defeat · Outbreak: The slide towards inevitable war · The fighting: The course of the Pacific War · Portrait of a soldier: Thomas Currie Derrick, an Australian soldier · The world around war: A clash of cultures and races · Portrait of a civilian: Gwen Harold Terasaki, an American in Japan · How the war ended: Not necessarily to Japan's advantage · Conclusion and consequences: How the War transformed the Asia-Pacific
Paperback; March 2002; 96 pages; ISBN: 9781841762296