Full Description
In one stroke, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour brought together the war in Europe between Britain and Russia on the one hand, and Germany on the other, with the ongoing conflict between Japan and China, turning it into the global struggle between two great coalitions we know as World War II. By bringing America into the war, Japan assured not only the destruction of her Asian empire, but also the end of American isolationism, the survival of Soviet communism and the ultimate bankruptcy of the great European colonial systems. In this book, 11 contributors consider the action as an international event, giving their interpretations of the attack's causes and consequences.
Contents
Relationship between the Far Eastern and European Wars; D.Cameron Watt - Royal Navy and the Japanese Threat; G.A.H.Gordon - Diplomatic Dress Rehearsal to the Japanese Attack; F.W.Marks, III - Japanese Wartime Rhetoric in the Traditional Philosophical Context; M.Kassel - Soviet Historians and the War in the Pacific; J.T.Sanders - 'Just Dumb Luck'; S.E.Ambrose - Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor; W.Heinrichs - Douglas MacArthur and the 'Other Pearl Harbor': The Debacle in the Philippines; M.Schaller - The United States, Japan, and the Panama Canal, 1940-1945; J.Major - Saturday, 6 December 1941; J.Bridgman - The US Navy and Pearl Harbor; R.W.Love, Jr
