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Hawaii Pacific University [Published date:2005]. Hard cover, 346 pp. Inscribed and signed by Author on front free end paper (not personalized). Very good in very good dust jacket. Red paper over boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From front jacket flap] War in the Pacific begins with Japan's interest in colonialism, the assassination of Marshall Chang Tso-lien in Manchuria, and Japan's subsequent decision to "Strike South." The attack on Pearl Harbor is examined in light of the difficulties Japan's navy had to overcome to launch such an attack. The atrocities inflicted upon innocent people and prisoners of war, even prior to the Rape of Nanking, are covered in detail throughout Japans conquest and reign of terror. Here, in a succinct and lucid presentation, is all the information you wanted to know about the Bataan Death March, the Burma Road, Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo, the Death Railway, the Kamikazes, the Firebombing of Japan, and difficulties Japan had in ending the war. The chapters on "Other" Surrender Ceremonies and "Independent Forces and Unnecessary Battles" reveal new information never before published.