Title:
World War II. The Pacific / David Horner ; Robert O'Neill, series editor.
ISBN:
9781435891333
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Publication Information:
New York : Rosen Pub., 2010.
Physical Description:
96 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Originally published as v. 1 in The Second World War. Oxford : Osprey, 2002-2003.
Contents:
Background to war : the expansion of Imperial Japan, 1891-1941 -- Warring sides : powerful Japan faced certain defeat -- Outbreak : the slide toward inevitable war -- The fighting : the course of the Pacific war -- Portrait of a soldier : Thomas Currie Derrick, an Australian soldier -- The world around war : a clash of cultures and races -- Portrait of a civilian : Gwen Harold Terasaki, an American in Japan -- How the war ended : not necessarily to Japan's advantage -- Conclusion and consequences : how the war transformed the Asia- Pacific area.
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OCLC Number:
ocn428823324
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