The road to Pearl Harbor : the coming of the war between the United States and Japan / by Herbert Feis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feis, Herbert, 1893-1972, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

United States--Foreign relations--Japan.

United States.

Japan--Foreign relations--United States.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1950.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan.It is full and impartial. Though written as an independent and private study, records and information of an exceptional range and kind were used in its making. These give it authority. They include all the pertinent State Department papers; the American official military records in preparation; selections from the Roosevelt papers at Hyde Park; the full private diaries of Stimons, Morgenthau, and Grew; the file of the intercepted "Magic" cables; and equivalent collections of official and private Japanese records. The author was at the time in the State Department (as Adviser on International Economic Affairs) and thus in close touch with the men and matters of which he writes.In telling how this war came about, this book tells much of how other wars happen. For it is a close study of the ways in which officials, diplomats, and soldiers think and act; of the environment of decision, of the ambitions of nations, of the clash of their ideas, of the way sin which fear and mistrust affect events, and of the struggle for time and advantage.The narrative follows events in a double mirror of which one side is Washington and the other Tokyo, and synchronizes the images. Thus it traces the ways in which the acts and decisions of this country influenced Japan and vice versa.Originally published in 1950.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part One: Separation

1. The Arc of Opposition

2. The Last, Lost Good Chance: 1937

3. 1937-39: Japan Goes Deeper into the Stubble

4. The Dismay of the Japanese Strategists: August, 1939

5. Separation but Still not Enmity: the Winter of 1939-40

Part Two. Hostility

6. The First Waves of German Victory Reach the Southwest Pacific: April, 1940

7. The Grave Dilemma before the United States: May, 1940

8. Japan Starts on the Road South: June, 1940

9. The American Government Forbears

10. Japan Selects a New Government

11. Japan Stencils Its Policy in Indelible Ink: July, 1940

12. Our First Firm Counteraction

13. Maneuver and Resistance

14. We Stop the Shipment of Scrap Iron

15. The Making of the Alliance with the Axis: September, 1940

16. We Draw Closer to Britain

17. After Our Elections: Steps towards a Concerted Program

18. Matsuoka Pursues the Great Combination

19. At the Same Time Japan Continues to Seek the Best Road South

20. Diplomacy by Gesture and Signal: American Policy in the Winter of 1940-41

Part Three. Enmity

21. We Reach a World-Wide Strategic Accord with Britain: March, 1941

22. Hull and Nomura Begin the Search for Formulas of Peace

23. Matsuoka Goes to Berlin and Moscow, and Returns with a Neutrality Pact

24. The Two Faces of Japanese Diplomacy Glare at One Another: April, 1941

25. Would Japan Stand Still While We Extended Ourselves in the Atlantic? The Spring of 1941

26. Japan Chafes and Germany Invades the Soviet Union: May- June, 1941

27. Japan Makes the Crucial Decision: July 2, 1941

28. The Konoye Cabinet Resigns-to Get Rid of Matsuoka

29. The United States and Britain Prepare to Impose Sanctions

30. We Freeze Japan's Funds

31. Was Japan to Have Any More Oil?

32. The Choice before Japan Is Defined; and Konoye Seeks a Meeting with Roosevelt

33. Roosevelt Meets Churchill; Argentia and After: August 1941

34. The Japanese High Command Demands That the Issue with the United States Be Faced and Forced

35. The Idea of a Roosevelt-Konoye Meeting Dies; the Deadlock Is Complete: October, 1941

36. The Army Insists on a Decision for War; Konoye Quits; Tojo Takes Over

Part Four. War

37. The Last Offers to the United States Are Formulated: November 5, 1941

38. November: The American Government Stands Fast and Hurries Its Preparations

39. Japan's Final Proposal for a Truce Is Weighed and Found Wanting

40. As Stubborn as Ever: the American Answer, November 26, 1941

41. The Last Arrangements and Formalities for War

42. The Clasp of War Is Closed

Index

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780691647364

0691647364

9781400868285

1400868289

OCLC:

905862963