Racing the Enemy - Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan

Informationen zum Autor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Klappentext With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story¿the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan¿Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered. From Washington to Moscow to Tokyo and back again, he shows us a high-stakes diplomatic game as Truman and Stalin sought to outmaneuver each other in forcing Japan¿s surrender; as Stalin dangled mediation offers to Japan while secretly preparing to fight in the Pacific; as Tokyo peace advocates desperately tried to stave off a war party determined to mount a last-ditch defense; and as the Americans struggled to balance their competing interests of ending the war with Japan and preventing the Soviets from expanding into the Pacific. Authoritative and engrossing, Racing the Enemy puts the final days of World War II into a whole new light. Zusammenfassung Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story—the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered.

Product details

• Authors: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Hasegawa Tsuyoshi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2006
• EAN: 9780674022416
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02241-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Japan, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, History, European History, Moderne Kriegsführung, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General