The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War, Paperback - S. C. M. Paine

Reducere. The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shatterin...

Reducere. Incisive insights into the distinctive nature of Japanese foreign intelligence and grand strategy, its underlying norms, and how they have changed ...

Incisive insights into the distinctive nature of Japanese foreign intelligence and grand strategy, its underlying norms, and how they have changed ...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from...

The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 - S. C. M. Paine

Reducere. DescriptionFor Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point fr...

This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former To...

Reducere. Asia, 1945. The War in Europe is over. Undeterred, the Japanese Empire fights on. With millions of loyal troops at its disposal and holdings that e...

DescriptionThe Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of ...

Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient R...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 3 Maps; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white;...

In 1868, samurai radicals overthrew the last shogun in the name of ancient Japanese ways. Then they took an opposite course, building a modern Japa...

Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activis...

After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway ...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller: A "virtually faultless" account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (T...

Reducere. In February 1942, Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the creation of a new unit designated the 1st Mari...

A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...

Details the concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates, through case studies of conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan...

Reducere. My life as a Japanese 'boy sailor' in the Pacific War. Due to Japan's war time General Mobilization Law, many boys of about 14 years of age who had...

Reducere. The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

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Reducere. Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides o...

Reducere. December 8th, 1941 marked the start of the full-scale invasion of the Philippines during World War 2. With the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula an...

Reducere. Flying P-38s, Jerry Johnson shot down 24 aircraft in 265 combat missions in the Pacific theater. At the age of only twenty-four, he commanded the h...

Reducere. I fought like mad as the Japanese stormed down the hill yelling "Malians you die, Malians you die." I emptied my rifle magazine, twice. Out of ammo...

Reducere. While 52 U.S. submarines were sunk in the Pacific, the Japanese took prisoners of war from the survivors of only seven of these lost submarines. Pr...

DescriptionSoon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and th...

Reducere. This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious--yet largely forgotten--b...

The illustrated diary of Japanese Navy floatplane pilot Warrant Officer Nemoto Kumesako, dating from the early months of the Pacific War, presented...

Reducere. Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the c...

``This booklet, based on original materials culled from archives in the United States and in the Russian Federation, treats a little known aspect o...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jonathan MarshallNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19Cover type...

DescriptionNo more instructive campaign than the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 could be selected for the student of early 20th century military histor...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Lauren HirshbergIllustration(s): 17 figures, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 386Collection: American Cro...

Reducere. An up-close look at the battles of World War II for kids ages 8 to 12Help kids learn all about World War II--right from the front lines. This fasci...