The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 download epub

Mark R. Peattie, Edward J. Drea, Hans J. van de Ven, ed.

Mark R. van de Ven, eds. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. Stanford Stanford University Press, 2010. The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 was immense both in its scale and consequences. Nevertheless, Western military histories of World War II have focused overwhelmingly on the campaigns of the European and Pacific theaters, and those specialized studies of the conflict that do exist deal primarily with such matters as diplomacy; politics; mass mobilization; and, in more recent years, Japanese atrocities and public memory.

The detailed chronology of the Japanese War 1937-1945 and the opening essay "An Overview of Major Military Campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945" which provides a blow by blow analysis of the war are well written and was exactly what I was looking for. These were. These were followed by many specialist topics such as the morale of the Japanese soldier, KMT and Communist guerrilla warfare, the Burma theater and individual campaigns that should excite the military buffs. These were also well complemented and summarized by the concluding essays.

Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US). Most studies of the Sino-Japanese War are presented from the perspective of the West. Departing from this tradition, The Battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the military operations that shaped much of what happened in political, economic, and cultural realms.

The Battle for China book. Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US). Departing from this tradition, The Battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the military operations that shaped much of Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US).

This book is the fruit of a collaborative international project initiated by Ezra Vogel, the purpose of which was to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) beyond the often narrow perspectives of past Western historiography. a comprehensive history focusing specifically on the military operations of the war. The need for such a book is obvious.

Peattie, Mark, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven, eds. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937- 1945.

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The Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor. Battle for China: Essays in the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. New York: Macmillan, 1974. The Complete History of the Greater East Asia War. Tokyo: Headquarters 500th Military Intelligence Service Group, 1953. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. Van de Ve.

The Sino-Japanese War has inspired numerous specialized studies-some analyzing diplomatic relations, some addressing specific incidents, and still others documenting the rise of Communism in China. The war itself, however, has usually been presented from the perspective of the West. Стр. 253 In 1945, with the advance of American airpower in the western Pacific coming ever closer to the Japanese homeland, the Japanese air presence in China was once more reduced to about one hundred operational aircraft.

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