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The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals
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This book offers state-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender: Which was the critical factor, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the Soviet Union's entry into the war? Writing from the perspective of three different nationalities and drawing on newly available documents from Japan, the United States, and the former Sovie
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Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
March 1st 2007
by Stanford University Press
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THE END OF THE PACIFIC WAR, Reappraisals. Edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.
Stanford University Press. Stanford, CA 2007.
“Introduction.” Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. 1-8.
1. “Introducing the Interpretive Problems of Japan’s 1945 Surrender: A Historiographical Essay on Recent Literature in the West.” Barton J. Bernstein 9-64.
Good summary of the literature on the end of the Pacific War. Highly complex. I think that Bernstein is in a middle kind of position.
9. “The Japanese government’s mid-August 1945 surrender c ...more
Stanford University Press. Stanford, CA 2007.
“Introduction.” Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. 1-8.
1. “Introducing the Interpretive Problems of Japan’s 1945 Surrender: A Historiographical Essay on Recent Literature in the West.” Barton J. Bernstein 9-64.
Good summary of the literature on the end of the Pacific War. Highly complex. I think that Bernstein is in a middle kind of position.
9. “The Japanese government’s mid-August 1945 surrender c ...more
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