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A Gathering Darkness - The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific, 1921-1942 (Hardcover, New)
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A Gathering Darkness - The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific, 1921-1942 (Hardcover, New)
Series: War and Society
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The United States' involvement in World War II began with the
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But for
Japan, the conflict began at a much earlier date. This book focuses
on Japan and the events in its military history leading up to and
including Pearl Harbor. Unique in its perspective, A Gathering
Darkness shows how historical events in the 1920s and 1930s steered
the country into war with America and its allies. A Gathering
Darkness looks at what happened inside Japan in the 1920s to change
its outlook on the West. There was a general repudiation of western
values by Japanese society, and Japan turned its back on the
outside world and an international order that were making life
difficult for the country. The treaties made in Washington in the
1920s left Japan with a local supremacy that no other power,
including Britain and the United States, could challenge on the
account of their lack of forward bases and their commitments that
precluded full deployment of forces in the western Pacific. A
Gathering Darkness shows why Japan became increasingly militant in
the 1930s. The authors look at Japanese military involvement in
Manchuria beginning in September 1931. They cover the beginning of
Japan's involvement in China in 1937, a conflict in which Japan
would up in a deadlock with the China theater of operations in the
period 1939 1941. The book then analyzes the first five months of
the Pacific War, including the Pearl Harbor strike and the
synchronization of offensive operations across more than four
thousand miles of ocean. It also investigates the dilemma Japan
faced as it realized in early 1942 that the United States was not
going to collapse. A Gathering Darkness is the first volume in SR
Books' trilogy on the Pacific War. This book offers a fascinating
look at the prelude to the Pacific War and the early stages of the
conflict that no one interested in World War II, military history,
or Japanese history will want to miss."
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