First in a trilogy of books comprising a general history of war in the Asia Pacific. Unlike other histories, this book expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Storm Clouds over the Pacific shows how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and longstanding geopolitics are taken into account. Peter Harmsen demonstrates how Japan and China's ancient enmity grew in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries leading to increased tensions in the 1930s which exploded into conflict in 1937. A war of attrition continued up to 1941, the year when Japan made the momentous decision for all-out war. AUTHOR: Peter Harmsen, a foreign correspondent in East Asia for two decades, is former bureau chief in Taiwan for the French news agency AFP. 32 pages of b/w photographs
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Case Mate Publishers
ISBN-13
9781612004808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4046581443
Product Key Features
Series
War in the Far East
Author
Peter Harmsen
Publication Name
Storm Clouds over the Pacific 1931-41
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
234 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228 mm
Item Width
152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Peter Harmsen
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