The end of the Pacific war : reappraisals / edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941-

Series:

Stanford nuclear age series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Armistices.

World War, 1939-1945.

Armistices.

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 331 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This book offers state-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender: Which was the critical factor, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the Soviet Union's entry into the war?

Contents:

Introduction / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Introducing the interpretive problems of Japan's 1945 surrender: a historiographical essay on recent literature in the West / Barton J. Bernstein

Ketsu gō: Japanese political and military strategy in 1945 / Richard B. Frank

The atomic bomb and Soviet entry into the war: of equal importance / Sumio Hatano

The atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion: which was more important in Japan's decision to surrender? / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Jockeying for position in the postwar world: Soviet entry into the war with Japan in August 1945 / David Holloway

The Soviet factor in ending the Pacific War: from the neutrality pact to Soviet entry into the war in august 1945 / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Conclusion: the interpretive dialogue,1989-2005, and various proposals for understanding the ending of the war and why and how Japan surrendered / Barton J. Bernstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-319) and index.

ISBN:

0804754276

9780804754279

OCLC:

71243901