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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific - War in the Far East Volume 1 (Paperback)
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific - War in the Far East Volume 1 (Paperback)
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Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl
Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient
hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account. Peter
Harmsen demonstrates how Japan and China’s ancient enmity grew in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries leading to increased
tensions in the 1930s which exploded into conflict in 1937. The
battles of Shanghai and Nanjing were followed by the battle of
Taierzhuang in 1938, China’s only major victory. A war of
attrition continued up to 1941, the year when Japan made the
momentous decision for all-out war; the infamous attack on Pearl
Harbor catapulted the United States into the war, and the Japanese
also overran British and Dutch territories throughout the western
Pacific. It is the first volume in the War in the Asia Pacific
series, a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war
against Japan. Unlike other histories, it expands the narrative
beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider
group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written
and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict.
Peter Harmsen uses his renowned ability to weave together complex
events into an entertaining and revealing narrative, including
facets of the war that may be unknown to many readers of WWII
history, such as the war in Subarctic conditions on the Aleutians,
or the mass starvations that cost the lives of millions in China,
Indochina, and India, and offering a range of perspectives to
reflect what war was like both at the top and at the bottom, from
the Oval Office to the blistering sands of Peleliu.
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