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Hell in the Pacific
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99The battle of Iwo Jima was extraordinary for its ferocity. US Marine Corps casualties exceeded by thousands the number of Japanese defenders, who fought almost to the last man over those five desperate weeks. The strategic justification for the mission has been challenged and the iconic photograph of the flag-raising was staged, but there is no questioning... more...
War and Militarism in Modern Japan
BRILL 2009; US$ 105.00A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in WWII. Scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904?5. This volume examines Japan?s twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bringing hitherto unexamined new themes and subject-matter under scrutiny up to the present day. more...
Jishin
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 14.95In 1923, one of the greatest natural disasters ever recorded struck one of the most densely populated areas in the world. In Jishin, author Lee Riordan recreates this calamity, the Great Kanto Earthquake, providing both stirring adventure and touching romance. This book vividly describes the shaking and shuddering of the quake itself, during which... more...
Whirlwind
Simon & Schuster 2010; Not AvailableWHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan?the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, award-winning historian Barrett Tillman recounts the saga from the perspectives of American... more...
Changing Histories: Japanese and South African Textbooks in Comparison (1945-1995)
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 27.92Hauptbeschreibung The teaching of history in South African and Japanese schools has attracted sustained criticism for the alleged attempts to conceal the controversial aspects of their countries’ past and to inculcate ideologies favourable to the ruling regimes. This book is the first attempt to systematically compare the ways in which education... more...
Japanese Portraits
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 15.95The private collections of longtime Japan resident Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people—some famous, some unknown—with insight and humor. Richie, who considers himself a foreigner despite living in Japan for over 53 years, is a keen observer of human nature. In Japanese Portraits, he provides an elegant... more...
Whirlwind
Simon & Schuster 2010; Not AvailableWHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan?the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, award-winning historian Barrett Tillman recounts the saga from the perspectives of American... more...
Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships 1941-45
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95The Imperial Japanese Navy of World War 2 surpassed the Allied and Axis fleets in innovation and technology. This title covers the 12 Japanese battleships that saw service between 1941-45. Each class is considered in turn in light of its design and construction, its armament and wartime modifications. The author, Mark Stille, also uses first-hand accounts... more...
Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruisers 1941-45
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s heavy cruisers were fast and heavily armed. Like the other vessels of the Japanese Navy, the heavy cruisers were technologically superior to and far more innovative than their Allied rivals, whom they met in many... more...
Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers 1921-45
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the Hosho. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it experimented with its carriers, perfecting their design and construction. As a result, by the time Japan entered World War II and attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in... more...









