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The Pacific War and contingent victory : why Japanese defeat was not inevitable /
About the Allies' victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan's defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers&...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Modern war studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Discerning Japan's Strategic Possibilities; 2. Strategy and Contingency in Stage Two Operations; 3. Contingencies in Prosecuting the War; 4. Allied Strategic and Economic Challenges; 5. Evolving Strategy for a Two-Ocean War; 6. An Accomplishment, Not a Given; 7. Rethinking Japan's Defeat; Appendix I. Japanese Operation Names and Allied Code Names; Appendix II. Japan's Merchant Shipping; Appendix III. Chronology of the War in Asia and the Pacific; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover. | |
| 520 | |a About the Allies' victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan's defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers's thorough and deeply informed explanation of how contingent the ""foregone conclusion"" of the war in the Pacific really was. However disproportionate their respective resources, both Japan and the Allied forces confronted significant obstacles to ultimate victory. One the two sides shared, Myers shows, was. | ||
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