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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
358 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Description
Spector follows up on Eagle Against the Sun, his account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, with a chronicle of the aftermath of this crucial conflict. He tells the fascinating story of the deadly confrontations that broke out--or merely continued--in Asia after peace was proclaimed. Under occupation by the victorious Allies, this part of the world was plunged into new power struggles, or back into old feuds, that in some...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiii, 791 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map, plans ; 25 cm.
Description
The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.
5) Stolen childhoods: the untold story of the children interned by the Japanese in the Second World War
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 356 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xiii, 681 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great...
Author
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
xv, 184 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Looks at World War II in Europe, from D-Day to the fall of Berlin, from the perspective of the American infantry soldiers who fought, capturing the horrors and hardships of battle while dealing with issues of leadership, strategy, and tactics.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Description
When Chief Gunner Hashiro Hayashi took dead aim on British Columbia's Estevan Point Lighthouse and wireless station on a June morning in 1942, the realities of war had come to North America. Sixty years later, the fascinating events of that era and their impact on both the Canadian and American psyches remain unknown to much of the world. After conducting decades of research and interviews with veterans on both sides of the conflict, author Brendan...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 397 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. The author not only offers a new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material, he provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
"From an 'illuminating and entertaining' (The New York Times) historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were...
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