Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words
Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation.

Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Materials covering political and strategic issues, the experiences of combatants and prisoners of war, the experiences of civilians caught up in the various war zones, and the impact of the war on the various home fronts, are also included.

By including a range of primary sources representing the experiences and views of participants and commentators of all sides and setting them in their historical contexts, this unique anthology promotes an understanding of the Pacific War, the events that led up to it, and its legacies. Alongside sources that reflect traditional military history, material that considers the war from the perspective of the "new military history" is also included.

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Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words
Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation.

Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Materials covering political and strategic issues, the experiences of combatants and prisoners of war, the experiences of civilians caught up in the various war zones, and the impact of the war on the various home fronts, are also included.

By including a range of primary sources representing the experiences and views of participants and commentators of all sides and setting them in their historical contexts, this unique anthology promotes an understanding of the Pacific War, the events that led up to it, and its legacies. Alongside sources that reflect traditional military history, material that considers the war from the perspective of the "new military history" is also included.

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Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words

Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words

Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words

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Overview

Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation.

Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Materials covering political and strategic issues, the experiences of combatants and prisoners of war, the experiences of civilians caught up in the various war zones, and the impact of the war on the various home fronts, are also included.

By including a range of primary sources representing the experiences and views of participants and commentators of all sides and setting them in their historical contexts, this unique anthology promotes an understanding of the Pacific War, the events that led up to it, and its legacies. Alongside sources that reflect traditional military history, material that considers the war from the perspective of the "new military history" is also included.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846450105
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/23/2009
Series: Fighting Words Series
Pages: 325
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Sean Brawley is Associate Professor of History, and Faculty Learning and Teaching Fellow, at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Chris Dixon is Associate Professor of History and coordinator of the Cultural History Project at the University of Queensland, Australia. His major publications include Greenwood's African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century.

Beatrice Trefalt is a senior lecturer in the Japanese Studies program, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Growing Tensions: Japan, China, and the United States
Chapter 3: Pearl Harbor
Chapter 4: Japanese Conquests, Allied Defeats, 1941-1942
Chapter 5: Turning Points at Sea, 1942: Coral Sea and Midway
Chapter 6: Turning the Tide on Land, 1942: Guadalcanal and New Guinea
Chapter 7: Wartime Life in Occupied Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 8: Home Fronts: Japan, the United States, and Australia
Chapter 9: The Prisoner-of-War Experience
Chapter 10: Allied Offensive, 1943-45
Chapter 11: Hiroshima and the Defeat of Japan
Chapter 12: Surrender
Chapter 13: Legacies: The Significance of the Pacific War

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