The last instalment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian
Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the
first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations
battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic
encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was
testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as
was the fact that the US Navy carried out the only successful
submarine campaign in history, reducing Japan's military and
merchant navies to shadows of the former selves. Meanwhile,
fighting continued in disparate geographic conditions on land, with
the chaos of Imphal, the inferno of Manila, and the carnage of Iwo
Jima forming some of milestones on the bloody road to peace, sealed
in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. The nuclear blasts at the end of
the war made one observer feel as if he was 'present at the
creation'. Indeed, the participants in the events in the Asia
Pacific in the mid-1940s were present at the creation of a new and
dangerous world. It was a world where the stage was set for the
Cold War and for international rivalries that last to this day, and
a new constellation of powers emerged, with the outlines, just over
the horizon, of a rising China. War in the Far East is a trilogy of
books comprising a general history of World War II in the Asia
Pacific. Unlike other histories on the conflict it goes into its
deep origins, beginning long before Pearl Harbor, and encompasses a
far wider group of actors to produce the most complete account yet
written on the subject and the first truly international treatment
of this epic conflict. Author Peter Harmsen weaves together complex
events into a revealing and entertaining narrative, including
facets of the war that may be unknown even to avid readers of World
War II history, from the mass starvations that cost the lives of
millions across China, Indochina and India to the war in subarctic
conditions in the Aleutians. Harmsen pieces together the full range
of perspectives, reflecting what war was like both at the top and
on the ground.
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