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008			131120s2014 nyuabf b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2013014781
020			_a0307739740 _q(Vintage trade paperback)
020			_a9780307739742 _q(Vintage trade paperback)
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035			_a(OCoLC)863596251
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050		4	_aD767.2 _b.H67 2014
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100	1		_aHotta, Eri, _d1971-
245	1	0	_aJapan 1941 : _bcountdown to infamy / _cEri Hotta.
250			_aFirst Vintage Books edition.
300			_axxiii, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, map ; _c21 cm
500			_a"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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWhat 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.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zJapan. _9151
650		0	_aMilitary planning _zJapan _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWar _xDecision making.
650		0	_aPearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
651		0	_aJapan _xMilitary policy _y20th century.
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