Japan's imperial conspiracy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergamini, David, 1928-1983.

Contributor:

Mazal Holocaust Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989.

Hirohito.

Japan--Politics and government--1926-1945.

Japan.

Politics and government.

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945.

Local Subjects:

Japan--Politics and government--1926-1945.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 1239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Morrow, 1971.

Contents:

Part one. Vengeance of war: Rape of Nanking

A-bomb

Defeat

Part two. Land of the sun goddess: Imperial heritage (A.D. 50-1642)

The coming of Perry (1642-1900)

Part three. Young caesar: Hirohito's boyhood (1900-1912)

Crown Prince Hirohito (1912-1921)

Regent Hirohito (1921-1926)

Hirohito as emporer (1926-1929)

Part four. Rubicon Manchuria: Sea power (1929-1930)

March 1931

Seizure of Mukden (1931)

Dollar swindle (1931-1932)

Fake war (1932)

Government by assassination (1932)

Outcast nation (1932-1933)

Part five. Discipling the legions: North or south? (1933-1934)

Organ or god? (1934-1935)

Purges of 1935

February Mutiny (1936)

Suppression (1936)

Part six. Triumvir of Asia: Neutralizing Russia (1936-1939)

Joining the axis (1940)

Passive resistance (1940-1941)

Konoye's last chance (1941)

Pearl Harbor (1941)

Part seven. Armageddon The strike south (1941-1942)

Crumbling empire (1942-1944)

Fall of the homeland (1944-1945).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1201-1224) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bergamini, David, 1928- Japan's imperial conspiracy.

ISBN:

0434066907

9780434066902

OCLC:

182242