Pearl Harbor (eBook)
200 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-5095-3721-1 (ISBN)
Takuma Melber teaches history and transcultural studies at Heidelberg University.
Prologue
I. The background
1. The road to Pearl Harbor
2. The crisis intensifies
3. Japan's proposals for resolving the conflict
4. The Hull Note
II. The Japanese war plan
1. Admiral Yamamoto and Operation Hawaii
2. The plan of attack
3. The Kid Butai sets sail
4. Japanese spies in Hawaii
5. The first encounter
III. The attack
1. The first wave
2. 'Tora Tora Tora'
3. Battleship Row in crossfire
4. The second attack wave
5. Egusa's dive bombers
IV. Consequences
1. The aftermath
2. The USA enters the war
3. The first prisoner-of-war
4. The Japanese-born victims of Pearl Harbor
5. Could Pearl Harbor have been prevented?
6. Conspiracy theories
7. Operation K
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Notes
Index
"dramatic and highly readable"
The Daily Telegraph
"Melber offers a fresh, dramatic account of events in 1941, when Japan headed into a war with the United States that most Japanese policymakers knew their country was not likely to win.... Readers know how the story ends, but Melber's just-the-facts narrative re-creates the tension of the events as they were lived."
Foreign Affairs
"Melber clearly is on top of his subject matter, having mastered the story of Pearl Habor from the perspectives of both Japan and the United States. In so doing he offers fascinating new insights into what led to the attack on Pearl Harbor and thus to America's entry into the Second World War. He displays a thorough knowledge of the Japanese and American literature, and he writes in a manner that is both accessible and authoritative. This is an excellent book and it will find a ready readership both among university students and among the general public."
--Richard Bessel, University of York
"There is no shortage of historical literature on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, so it is a brave historian who seeks to find a new way to present a familiar story. The great merit of Takuma Melber's new book on the battle is his access to Japanese sources and literature. This is the dimension commonly missing in most accounts, and it gives Melber the opportunity to provide a fuller, more definitive and authoritative account of the battle, its background, and its consequences. Melber writes with great economy on a big subject, and he writes with flair and precision: this book is a literary achievement as well as a work of exceptional scholarship."
--Richard Overy, University of Exeter
"Here is a new look at the dramatic way Japan drew the United States into World War II. The drawing of additional details from a variety of Japanese sources as well as the published and archival material in English and German offers the reader an excellent and balanced introduction to a very important event."
--Gerhard L. Weinberg, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina
"A fascinating look at the inner workings of Japanese political, military, and diplomatic circles."
War on the Rocks
"[A] penetrating study of one of the key events of the 20th century from the Japanese rather than the usual American perspective. Melber's nuanced picture of Japanese wartime decision-making exposes the deep rifts in the country's military and civilian leadership. His clinical analysis of the diplomatic to-and-fro between Tokyo and Washington in the months before the attack lays bare the inevitable slide towards war."
The Australian
"In this vivid book, Takuma Melber breathes new life into the dramatic events that unfolded before, during, and after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. By putting the Japanese attackers' perspective at the centre of his account, he provides a more comprehensive and authoritative history of the battle, its background, and its consequences."
Military History
"Pearl Harbor is a fine introduction to its subject, enhanced by useful additions from original Japanese sources."
Michigan War Studies Review
"His book eloquently synthesizes both Japanese and American secondary and primary sources on the attack, and the narrative is told primarily from the perspective of the Japanese. The result is an evenly balanced account that provides a "big picture" view of events."
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Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.10.2020 |
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Übersetzer | Nick Somers |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Schlagworte | Geschichte • Geschichte u. Zeitgeschichte des 20./21. Jahrhunderts • History • History Special Topics • Pearl Harbor • Pearl Harbor /Militär • Social & Cultural History • Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte • Spezialthemen Geschichte • Twentieth Century & Contemporary History • Weltkrieg II |
ISBN-10 | 1-5095-3721-X / 150953721X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-3721-1 / 9781509537211 |
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