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

Informationen zum Autor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Klappentext With startling revelations! 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. 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
• 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; Japan, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Moderne Kriegsführung