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  • Ten Years in Japan

    A Contemporary Record Drawn from the Diaries and Private and Official Papers of Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932-1942

    by Joseph C. Grew ...
    America's Ambassador to Tokyo for the ten years before Pearl Harbor tells the full story of how and why America went to war with Japan. He draws that story from three first-hand sources: his own day-to-day diaries, his personal and official correspondence, and his dispatches to the State Department. From this huge mass of material, he has woven together a chronological narrative of history in the ... Read more

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  • Ten Years in Japan

    by Joseph C. Grew ...
    Ten Years in Japan is a fascinating and unique look inside the government of Japan before and during the attack on Pearl Harbour. Written from the detailed personal diaries of Joseph C. Grew the American ambassador based in Tokyo from 1932 and up until war was declared in the beginning of 1942. This book deals, as is right and proper, primarily with American-Japanese relations. But for British ... Read more

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  • Japan's Military Masters

    The Army in Japanese Life

    by Hillis Lory ...
    THE REALISTIC FACTS ABOUT JAPAN'S CAPACITY—IN MANPOWER AND IN NATIONAL MORALE—TO FIGHT THE "HOLY WAR" HER MILITARY LEADERS HAVE SO LONG PLANNED FOR HERIn Japanese Military Masters: The Army in Japanese Life, author Hillis Lory answers fundamental questions in satisfactory detail. He describes the life and though of the peasant, the motives and personalities of the men close to the Throne. He ... Read more

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    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    "It is our immense good fortune that a man who presided over this crisis in history is able to turn the action he lived through into enduring literature." — The New York TimesThis book is the first in Winston Churchill's monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II. Told from the unique viewpoint of a British ... Read more

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  • Japan 1941

    Countdown to Infamy

    by Eri Hotta ...
    A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific.When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western ... Read more

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  • Stilwell and the American Experience in China

    1911-1945

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American.General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Barbara W. Tuchman’s groundbreaking narrative follows Stilwell from the time he arrived in ... Read more

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  • The Gathering Storm: The Origins of the Second World War

    Enriched edition. The Second World War

    by Winston Churchill, Owen Hartley ...
    Winston Churchill's 'The Gathering Storm: The Origins of the Second World War' is a compelling and meticulously researched account of the events that led to the deadliest conflict in human history. Written with Churchill's characteristic eloquence and keen insight, the book provides a detailed analysis of the political, economic, and social factors that contributed to the outbreak of World War II. ... Read more

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  • New York Times Complete World War II

    The Coverage of the Entire Conflict

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    Experience the history, politics, and tragedy of World War II as you've never seen it before with original, often firsthand daily reportage of The New York Times, our country's newspaper of record.The Times' complete coverage of World War II is now available for the first time in this unique package. Hundreds of the most riveting articles from the archives of the Times including firsthand accounts ... Read more

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  • The Penguin History of the Second World War

    by Guy Wint, Peter Calvocoressi, John Pritchard ...
    First published in 1972 under the title TOTAL WAR, THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR was designed by its authors to show a rising generation why the Second World War happened and how it was conducted. In this bold feat of compression they give as much stress and space to political, social and moral forces (not to mention intelligence and other activities 'behind the line') as to the ... Read more

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  • Our Man In Tokyo

    An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor

    by Steve Kemper ...
    Winner of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Dillon Book Award"Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense." —Wall Street JournalA riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war.In 1932, Japan was in crisis. ... Read more

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  • Step by Step

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 4 - Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works
    The second volume in this enthralling collection of the British prime minister's journalistic work, tracing Hitler's rise to power and the threat of Nazism.Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a ... Read more

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  • Red Sun Rising

    Japan, China and the West: 1894-1941

    by Nick Shepley ...
    Series Book 5 - Explaining History
    In the second half of the 19th Century, Japan awoke from centuries of isolation to be a surprising and warlike challenge to European power in Asia. This ebook charts the rise of Japan's power and her dominion over China. It also explores how Japan came to challenge European nations convinced of their own invincibility in the east, culminating in the attack on the USA at Pearl Harbour. ... Read more

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