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Japan 1941 : countdown to infamy / Eri Hotta.

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: xxiii, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0307739740
  • 9780307739742
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D767.2 .H67 2014
Contents:
What a difference a day makes -- Rumors of war -- The return of Don Quixote -- The beginning of it all -- The soldier's dilemmas -- Good riddance, good friends -- Japan's north-south problem -- A quiet crisis in July -- "Meet me in Juneau" -- An unwinnable, inevitable war -- One last opportunity -- A soldier takes over -- Winding back the clock -- On the brink -- "No last word between friends" -- The Hull note -- Jumping off the high platform -- The new beginning.
Summary: A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. In a groundbreaking history that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific, Eri Hotta poses essential questions overlooked for the last seventy years: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a hidden Japan - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, deluded by reckless militarism, tempted by the gambler's dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable. -- Book cover.
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"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 2013"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What a difference a day makes -- Rumors of war -- The return of Don Quixote -- The beginning of it all -- The soldier's dilemmas -- Good riddance, good friends -- Japan's north-south problem -- A quiet crisis in July -- "Meet me in Juneau" -- An unwinnable, inevitable war -- One last opportunity -- A soldier takes over -- Winding back the clock -- On the brink -- "No last word between friends" -- The Hull note -- Jumping off the high platform -- The new beginning.

A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. In a groundbreaking history that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific, Eri Hotta poses essential questions overlooked for the last seventy years: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a hidden Japan - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, deluded by reckless militarism, tempted by the gambler's dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable. -- Book cover.