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British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941
Antony Best
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Description for British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941
Hardback. Using previously classified records, this is a full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJF; HBLW; JPSH; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Using many previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book shows how this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.
This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Using many previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book shows how this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Military and Strategic History
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333945513
SKU
V9780333945513
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Antony Best
ANTONY BEST is Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936-41 and a number of scholarly articles on Anglo-Japanese relations in the 1930s.
Reviews for British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941
'This is a superb example of intelligence history.' - Peter Dennis, Australian Defence Force Academy, Journal of Military History 'This is an important work and it does much to enhance our understanding of the process that marked the decline of British power in Asia in the twentieth-century.' - Peter Lowe, University of Manchester, EHR