The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific

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Akira Iriye

Klappentext

Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan, which had not been able to defeat the isolated and divided forces of China, decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?

Inhalt

List of maps
Editor's Foreword
Preface

1. Introduction

2. Japan isolated

3. The forging of an anti-democratic coalition

4. The failure of an alliance

5. The road to war

6. Conclusion

Bibliographical essay

Maps
Index