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  • Why the Samurai Lost Japan

    A Study in Miscalculation and Folly

    by John D Beatty, Lee A Rochwerger ...
    Beginning in the late 19th century, Imperial Japan embarked on a program of aggressive military overseas adventures in Asia and the Pacific. From 1904 to 1941, Japan's desire for resource independence had driven them to conquer Korea, Manchuria, large parts of China, and French Indochina, and to occupy large swaths of Pacific islands. These conquests provided tremendous resources, but still, they ... Read more

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  • The Rising Sun

    The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

    by John Toland ...
    Series series Modern Library War
    “[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThis Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, ... Read more

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  • Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

    War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 1 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    “Both a serious work of history . . . and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative.”—San Francisco ChronicleOn the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Series Book 2 - War in the Far East
    The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians ... Read more

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  • Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–1941

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Series Book 1 - War in the Far East
    "An excellent primer about World War II in Asia prior to the involvement of the United States"—part one of a fascinating history trilogy ( New York Journal of Books).War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves ... Read more

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  • This Kind of War

    The Classic Military History of the Korean War

    by T. R. Fehrenbach ...
    The book that former Defense Secretary James Mattis recommends as America faces the threat of conflict with North Korea.In a recent story, Newsweek reported: "Amid increasingly deteriorating relations between the U.S. and North Korea, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un exchange barbs and the threat of a nuclear conflict looms, Mattis responded to a question on how best to avoid such a war. ... Read more

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  • Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan

    by Herbert P. Bix ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A startling work — awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications." — Business Week"Magnificent. . . . everything a political biography should be." — Richmond Times-DispatchThis rich and powerful political biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito’s legacy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • A Short History of the Korean War

    by James L. Stokesbury ...
    This concise military history volume is "an excellent, coherent book that covers the major events of the Korean War admirably" ( Army ).Historian James L. Stokesbury, author of A Short History of World War I and A Short History of World War II, summarizes the important events of the Korean War, citing all the major battles and key players in the conflict."Reducing an entire war to manageab... ... Read more

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  • Eagle Against the Sun

    The American War with Japan

    by Ronald H. Spector ...
    Series series World War II History
    “The best book by far on the Pacific War” (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict.This “superbly readable, insightful, gripping” (Washington Post Book World) contribution ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Pacific War

    From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

    Edited by Daniel Marston ...
    The Pacific War brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians.From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was marked by amazing tactical innovations, such as those in amphibious warfare, and horrific battles that raged in the unforgiving climate of the island jungles ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • The Pacific War

    The Strategy, Politics, and Players That Won the War

    by William B. Hopkins ...
    This "important comprehensive study" of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory ( Roanoke Times).Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological ... Read more

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  • Okinawa: The History of an Island People

    by George H. Kerr, Mitsugu Sakihara ...
    "The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific AffairsOkinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influential scholarly work in the field of Japanese studies. The histories of Japan, Okinawa and the entire Pacific region are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD