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The Pacific War and Contingent Victory: Why Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable
Michael W. Myers
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Hardback. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
About the Allies’ victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan’s defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers’s thorough and deeply informed explanation of how contingent the “foregone conclusion” of the war in the Pacific really was.
However disproportionate their respective resources, both Japan and the Allied forces confronted significant obstacles to ultimate victory. One the two sides shared, Myers shows, was the lack of a single individual with the knowledge, ... Read more
About the Allies’ victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan’s defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers’s thorough and deeply informed explanation of how contingent the “foregone conclusion” of the war in the Pacific really was.
However disproportionate their respective resources, both Japan and the Allied forces confronted significant obstacles to ultimate victory. One the two sides shared, Myers shows, was the lack of a single individual with the knowledge, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700620876
SKU
V9780700620876
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About Michael W. Myers
Michael W. Myers is professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University, USA where he has served as interim director of the Asia program and taught Japanese philosophy and religions. He is the author of Brahman: A Comparative Theology and Let the Cow Wander: Modeling the Metaphors in Veda and Vedanta.
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