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  • Sunburst

    The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941

    by Mark Peattie ...
    This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific war. In the process of explaining the navy's essential strengths and weaknesses, the book provides the most detailed account available in English of Japan's naval air campaign over China from 1937 to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945

    Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie ...
    With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989). The Japanese military takeover in Manchuria between 1931 and 1932 was a critical turning point in East Asian history. It marked the first surge of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945

    Edited by Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie ...
    These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto. the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South ... Read more

    $66.29 USD

  • The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937

    Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie ...
    Series series
    Volume two of the acclaimed three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialismThis book brings together essays by leading experts on the history of Japan to examine the period from 1895 to 1937 when Japan’s economic, social, political, and military influence in China expanded so rapidly that it supplanted the influence of competing Western powers. They discuss how Japan’s informal ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • How Carriers Fought

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  • Shattered Sword

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  • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

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    The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an ... Read more

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