[PDF] From Pearl Harbor To V J Day eBook

Author : Clayton D. James
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 146172094X

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Before this book, general readers who wanted a compact but comprehensive history of American military action in World War II had nowhere to turn. Now, in this concise, lucid, and balanced account, D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provide the first one volume history of the U.S. armed forces in the war. Examining the strategy, logistics, high command, operations, and home-front aspects of the military campaign, they narrate the story .in slightly more than 200 pages, with a clarity and perspective that virtually any reader will appreciate. In addition to describing the major operations and battles, and analyzing strategy and tactics, From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day contains crisp portraits of major military leaders and a background of political, diplomatic, economic, and social developments in the warring nations. Also receiving attention are the role of women and minorities in the military; the relation of armed forces personnel to the American home front; the impact of technology; and the breakthroughs of communications intelligence. In a final chapter the authors consider the consequences of the war for American society and suggest that romanticized views of the conflict should finally be laid to rest.

Author : Robert Olney Easton
Publisher :
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Army spouses
ISBN : 9780806123363

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"In this riveting narrative, WWII is uniquely experienced through letters exchanged by a young couple, she on the home front, he on the war front. This intimate and suspenseful dialogue between two lovers, mates, and parents offers readers a poignant look at two people during wartime."--Back cover.

Author : Charles A. Numark
Publisher : New Cavendish Books Dist
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781872727141

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Provides an insight into life on the American homefront that will be fascinating to people of all ages.

Author : Walter L. Hixson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2003
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780415940320

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World War II changed the face of the United States, catapulting the country out of economic depression, political isolation, and social conservatism. Ultimately, the war was a major formative factor in the creation of modern America. This unique, twelve-volume set provides comprehensive coverage of this transformation in its domestic policies, diplomatic relations, and military strategies, as well as the changing cultural and social arenas. The collection presents the history of the creation of a super power prior to, during, and after the war, analyzing all major phases of the U.S. involvement, making it a one-stop resource that will be essential for all libraries supporting a history curriculum. This volume is available on its own or as part of the twelve-volume set, "The American Experience in World War II." For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for" The American Experience in World War II" [ISBN: 0-415-94028-1].

Author : Bruce Bliven (Jr.)
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 1960
Category : History
ISBN :

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This account begins with Pearl Harbor and ends with V-J day.

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400868289

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This is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan. It is full and impartial. Though written as an independent and private study, records and information of an exceptional range and kind were used in its making. These give it authority. They include all the pertinent State Department papers; the American official military records in preparation; selections from the Roosevelt papers at Hyde Park; the full private diaries of Stimons, Morgenthau, and Grew; the file of the intercepted "Magic" cables; and equivalent collections of official and private Japanese records. The author was at the time in the State Department (as Adviser on International Economic Affairs) and thus in close touch with the men and matters of which he writes. In telling how this war came about, this book tells much of how other wars happen. For it is a close study of the ways in which officials, diplomats, and soldiers think and act; of the environment of decision, of the ambitions of nations, of the clash of their ideas, of the way sin which fear and mistrust affect events, and of the struggle for time and advantage. The narrative follows events in a double mirror of which one side is Washington and the other Tokyo, and synchronizes the images. Thus it traces the ways in which the acts and decisions of this country influenced Japan and vice versa. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756555949

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.

Author : Jacob Neufeld
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category :
ISBN : 1437912869

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This volume records the proceedings of a symposium held in July 1995 at the Naval Officers' Club, Bethesda, Maryland. Contents: Grand strategy in the Pacific war / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Joint operations / Walter S. Poole -- The island campaign / Edwin H. Simmons -- Intelligence methodologies in the Pacific war / John Prados -- The sea war against Japan / William S. Dudley -- Military technology and the Pacific war / Richard P. Hallion -- Strategic intelligence and war termination / Edward J. Drea -- Revolutionizing submarine warfare / Eugene B. Fluckey -- The strategic air war against Japan / William M. Leary -- The decision to drop the atomic bomb / Theodore H. McNelly. Photos.