Asian Armageddon, 1944-45:
The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval ba...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as was the fact that the US Navy carried out the only successful submarine campaign in history, reducing Japan’s military and merchant navies to shadows of the former selves. Meanwhile, fighting continued in disparate geographic conditions on land, with the chaos of Imphal, the inferno of Manila, and the carnage of Iwo Jima forming some of the milestones on the bloody road to peace, sealed in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. The nuclear blasts at the end of the war made one observer feel as if he was ‘present at the creation.' Indeed, the participants in the events in the Asia Pacific in the mid-1940s were present at the creation of a new and dangerous world. It was a world where the stage was set for the Cold War and for international rivalries that last to this day, and a new constellation of powers emerged, with the outlines, just over the horizon, of a rising China [...] |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 239 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781612006277 |
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| adam_text | Contents vii Preface 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Suicide Creek: January-February 1944 Ichigõ: March-May 1944 “Turn on the Lights!”: June 1944 “Hell is on Us”: July-September 1944 Decisive Battles: October—December 1944 The Long Haul: January-March 1945 Sunset: April-June 1945 The End: July—September 1945 “Peace”: September 1945 Onwards Endnotes Bibliography Index 1 23 46 71 91 116 136 155 173 187 217 229
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Contents vii Preface 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Suicide Creek: January-February 1944 Ichigõ: March-May 1944 “Turn on the Lights!”: June 1944 “Hell is on Us”: July-September 1944 Decisive Battles: October—December 1944 The Long Haul: January-March 1945 Sunset: April-June 1945 The End: July—September 1945 “Peace”: September 1945 Onwards Endnotes Bibliography Index 1 23 46 71 91 116 136 155 173 187 217 229 |
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