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The end of the Second World War led to the United States’
emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it
marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and
prosperity that one historian has labeled “the long peace.” Yet
half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and
Malaya—the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought
to completely sever the yoke of imperialism and colonialism with
all-too-violent consequences. East and Southeast Asia quickly
became the most turbulent regions of the globe. Within weeks of the
famous surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, civil war,
communal clashes and insurgency engulfed the continent, from
Southeast Asia to the Soviet border. By early 1947, full-scale wars
were raging in China, Indonesia and Vietnam, with growing guerrilla
conflicts in Korea and Malaya. Within a decade after the Japanese
surrender, almost all of the countries of South, East and Southeast
Asia that had formerly been conquests of the Japanese or colonies
of the European powers experienced wars and upheavals that resulted
in the deaths of at least 2.5 million combatants and millions of
civilians. With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian
Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries and international
archives to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive military
history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events. Far
from being simply offshoots of the Cold War, as they have often
been portrayed, these shockingly violent conflicts forever changed
the shape of Asia, and the world as we know it today.
The end of the Second World War led to the United States' emergence
as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked
the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and
prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace". Yet
half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and
Malaya-the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought
to completely sever the yoke of imperialism and colonialism with
all-too-violent consequences. East and Southeast Asia quickly
became the most turbulent regions of the globe. Within weeks of the
famous surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri, civil war,
communal clashes and insurgency engulfed the continent, from
Southeast Asia to the Soviet border. By early 1947, full-scale wars
were raging in China, Indonesia and Vietnam, with growing guerrilla
conflicts in Korea and Malaya. Within a decade after the Japanese
surrender, almost all of the countries of South, East and Southeast
Asia that had formerly been conquests of the Japanese or colonies
of the European powers experienced wars and upheavals that resulted
in the deaths of at least 2.5 million combatants and millions of
civilians. With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian
Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries and international
archives to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive military
history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events. Far
from being simply offshoots of the Cold War, as they have often
been portrayed, these shockingly violent conflicts forever changed
the shape of Asia, and the world as we know it today.
This brief account was prepared within a few weeks of the events it
describes and relies heavily upon the first-hand testimony of the
participants as collected by Mr. Benis M. Frank and the author. It
details the situation, Initial Planning, Final Planning, Initial
Landing, The Capture of Grenville, Action at St. George's, Grand
Mal Bay, Movement Toward St. George's, The Grand Anse Operation,
Continuing Operations in the Northeast, The Capture of St.
George's, The Boundary Problems, Mopping Up on Grenada, Carriacou,
and the Departure from Grenada.
This short study of the role of the U.S. Marines in Operation
Urgent Fury is in some ways an experiement in the writing of
comtemporary military history. The near-coincident Beirut
deployment and Grenada intervention presented us with the problem
and opportunity of collecting operational history in real time. The
brief account was prepared within a few weeks of the events it
describes and relies heavily upon the first hand testimony of the
participants. The viewpoint presented, therefore, is very much that
of the participants and the story is told almost entirely in terms
of their perceptions and beliefs.
The present volume describes the activities of the U.S. Army in
Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the
French government during the immediate postwar years, and the
advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of
1954. Its scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to
low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a
background of relevant military and political developments. The
author enjoyed access to the official records of the period and
examined personal papers, interviews, other documentary sources,
and miscellaneous published materials. Useful not only as a study
of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent of
national policy, this volume is a fitting introduction to the
overall study of the conflict in Vietnam.
Beginning with a gripping account of one of the most decisive naval battles in history-the 1905 battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and Russians-and ending with the sophisticated missile engagements of the Falklands and in the Persian Gulf, naval historian Ronald Spector explores every facet of the past one hundred years of naval warfare. Drawing from more than one hundred diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews, this is, above all, a masterful narrative of the human side of combat at sea-real stories told from the point of view of the sailors who experienced it. Exhaustively researched and fascinating in detail, At War at Sea is a monumental history of the men, the ships, and the battles fought on the high seas.
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