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Racing the Enemy : Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (427 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674038400
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Racing the EnemyDDC classification:
  • 940.53/2452
LOC classification:
  • D813
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- Introduction: Race to the Finish -- 1. Triangular Relations and the Pacific War -- 2. Stalin, Truman, and Hirohito Face New Challenges -- 3. Decisions for War and Peace -- 4. Potsdam: The Turning Point -- 5. The Atomic Bombs and Soviet Entry into the War -- 6. Japan Accepts Unconditional Surrender -- 7. August Storm: The Soviet-Japanese War and the United States -- Conclusion: Assessing the Roads Not Taken -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story--the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered.
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Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- Introduction: Race to the Finish -- 1. Triangular Relations and the Pacific War -- 2. Stalin, Truman, and Hirohito Face New Challenges -- 3. Decisions for War and Peace -- 4. Potsdam: The Turning Point -- 5. The Atomic Bombs and Soviet Entry into the War -- 6. Japan Accepts Unconditional Surrender -- 7. August Storm: The Soviet-Japanese War and the United States -- Conclusion: Assessing the Roads Not Taken -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story--the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered.

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