Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II / Edition 1

by Thomas W. Zeiler author of Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and t

Overview

Unconditional Defeat-the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this "war without mercy" could only come to one conclusion: the complete, unconditional defeat of Japan by a mobilized, overwhelming, vengeful United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780842029919
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	War and Society , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	223
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.14(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Thomas W. Zeiler is chair and professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A November for Offensives Chapter 2 Entering Japanese Territory Chapter 3 The China-Formosa-Luzon Line Chapter 4 In Range of the Home Islands Chapter 5 The Return to the Philippines Chapter 6 Liberation Chapter 7 The Inner Ring Chapter 8 Unconditional Defeat

What People are Saying About This

Theodore F. Cook

Zeiler brings his reader into the command centers of the Allies and takes them out into the jungles and onto the coral or volcanic sand beaches with equal ease.
— co-author of Japan at War: An Oral History

Editorial Reviews

Excellent book for enthusiasts of World War II, military history, and Japanese history

Military History Of The West

At last, a worthy historian has taken on the task of examining the issue of unconditional surrender in the Pacific Theater from the perspective of those actually waging that conflict. In clear and decisive prose, Thomas W. Zeiler looks at the Pacific War's last eighteen months and presents the strategic controversy and the personal tragedy that have too often been subsumed in less nuanced interpretations of America's march to final victory. This book should find its way onto the reading list of any serious student of the strategy and the experiences of that era. In a fast-moving narrative that still manages to put the events in context, Zeiler demonstrates the consequences of the Allied decision to push for a final and complete victory over Japan in what he sees as Japan's inability to act decisively to avoid 'unconditional defeat.'

Theodore F. Cook

A concise and readable military history of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War.

Akira Iriye

This brief but comprehensive history of the Pacific War's last two years is written in a style that should please both general readers and undergraduates studying military history.

Journal of Military History

Thomas Zeiler successfully re-creates the fury of the Pacific War and shows us the ferocity, brutality, and fanaticism—of both sides—that was the reality of the Pacific War.

Mark P. Parillo