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The Scramble for Asia. U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War.
Marc Gallicchio
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Description for The Scramble for Asia. U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War.
Hardback. Series: Total War: New Perspectives on World War II. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
As American generals and diplomats accepted Japan's surrender on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in September 1945, allied combatants wrestled for power in the new post-war world. The decisions made to effect Japan's surrender entangled U.S. forces on the mainland of Asia for the next two years, and helped shape the next several decades of international relations in the Far East. Marc Gallicchio expertly examines the diplomatic, military, and economic struggles in which the United States, China, and the Soviet Union were pitted in the immediate aftermath of victory over Japan. The Allied victory was but a ... Read more
As American generals and diplomats accepted Japan's surrender on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in September 1945, allied combatants wrestled for power in the new post-war world. The decisions made to effect Japan's surrender entangled U.S. forces on the mainland of Asia for the next two years, and helped shape the next several decades of international relations in the Far East. Marc Gallicchio expertly examines the diplomatic, military, and economic struggles in which the United States, China, and the Soviet Union were pitted in the immediate aftermath of victory over Japan. The Allied victory was but a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Total War: New Perspectives on World War II
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742544376
SKU
V9780742544376
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About Marc Gallicchio
Marc Gallicchio is professor of history at Villanova University. His book, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895–1945, won the Robert H. Ferrell Senior Book Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also the editor of The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian ... Read more
Reviews for The Scramble for Asia. U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War.
A thoughtful and elegant writer, Marc Gallicchio has emerged as one of the leading historians of American–East Asian relations. No one knows the immediate post–World War II era as well.
Warren I. Cohen, distinguished professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center This latest volume in the 'Total War: New Perspectives on ... Read more
Warren I. Cohen, distinguished professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center This latest volume in the 'Total War: New Perspectives on ... Read more