The relationship between the Far Eastern and European wars, 1922-1941 / Donald Cameron Watt -- The Royal Navy and the Japanese threat / G.A.H. Gordon -- Prelude to Pearl Harbor : the diplomatic dress rehearsal / Frederick W. Marks III -- Japanese wartime rhetoric in the traditional philosophical context / Marleen Kassel -- Moscow on the Pacific : Soviet historians and the war in the Pacific, 1941-1945 / J. Thomas Sanders -- Just dumb luck : American entry into World War II / Stephen Ambrose -- Pearl Harbor in a global context / Waldo Heinrichs -- The debacle in the Philippines / Michael Schaller -- The United States, Japan, and the Panama Canal / John Major -- Saturday, December 6, 1941 / Jon Bridgeman -- FDR as Commander in Chief / Robert W. Love, Jr
Summary:
The attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the single most important wartime events of our century. In one stroke, the Japanese offensive brought together the war in Europe with the ongoing conflict between Japan and China, turning it into the global struggle between two great coalitions we know as the Second World War. By bringing America into the war, Japan assured not only the destruction of her Asian empire, but also the end of American isolationism, the survival of Soviet communism, and the ultimate bankruptcy of the great European colonial systems. In Pearl Harbor Revisited, eleven distinguished writers consider the action as an international event, providing remarkably lucid and impressive interpretations of the attack's causes and consequences
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