History Of Warfare: The Second World War In The East

Part of the Cassell 'History Of Warfare' series, a multi-volume history of war and warfare from ancient to modern times.

A nation with no experience of defeat over a history that reached back over thousands of years could not imagine defeat: a people that believed itself to be mandated by Heaven to assume its proper place in the world could not envisage failure.

This fully illustrated account of the war between Japan and the Allies in the Far East and the Pacific starts with its origins in the 1931 invasion of Manchuria and Japan's "special undeclared war" against China in 1937. Then the growing alienation between Japan and the West came to a head with the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941. All aspects of the war are covered in this narrative history, from the political and ideological background to the tactical successes, and blunders, of both sides, culminating in the final devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the first atom bomb.