Why the Japanese lost : the red sun's setting / Bryan Perrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perrett, Bryan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2014.

Summary:

This sweeping historical study examines the military culture and fighting style of Imperial Japan from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of WWII. In Why the Japanese Lost, military historian Bryan Perrett presents an in-depth portrait of a nation that believed itself to be invincible, even when its strength was being systematically destroyed by the greatest industrial power in the world. Perrett analyzes the Japanese Army from the middle of the nineteenth century through the closing months of the Second World War, highlighting its various successes as well as the flaws that led to its greatest failures. Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, Japan was content to remain in medieval isolation. But by the twentieth century, the nation was armed and determined to carve out a new identity characterized by a dominating spirit. Dejected by the Great Depression of the early 1930s, the nation had grown from moderate to militant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2014).

ISBN:

9781473838161

1473838169

9781473838871

1473838878