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HIROHITOS WAR - FRANCIS PIKE KARTONIERT (TB)

Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1 208 page narrative of the
Pacific War  Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation  balancing the
existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As
well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles  Francis Pike offers many
challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war  Emperor
Hirohito's war guilt  the inevitability of US Victory  the abilities of General MacArthur and
Admiral Yamamoto  the role of China  Great Britain and Australia  military and naval technology
and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources  including more
details on logistics  economics  POWs  submarines and kamikaze  as well as a 1930-1945 timeline
and over 200 maps.

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