Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10/03/2009 - 688 páginas By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing drama—that ended in Japan's utter devastation—was acted out across the vast theater of Asia in massive clashes between army, air, and naval forces. In recounting these extraordinary events, Max Hastings draws incisive portraits of MacArthur, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and other key figures of the war in the East. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailors caught in the bloodiest of campaigns. With its piercing and convincing analysis, Retribution is a brilliant telling of an epic conflict from a master military historian at the height of his powers. |
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CHAPTER ONE Dilemmas and Decisions | 3 |
Defying Gravity | 32 |
CHAPTER THREE The British in Burma | 59 |
CHAPTER FOUR Titans at | 95 |
CHAPTER FIVE Americas Return to the Philippines | 112 |
3 | 125 |
18 | 135 |
Dragon by the Tail | 192 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Captivity and Slavery | 345 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Okinawa | 369 |
47 | 378 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Maos War | 404 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Eclipse of Empires | 426 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN The Bombs | 444 |
The Bears Claws | 482 |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE The Last Act | 504 |
CHAPTER NINE MacArthur on Luzon | 223 |
Iwo Jima | 247 |
War Underwater | 266 |
LeMay | 281 |
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Road past Mandalay | 319 |
Bludging and Mopping Up | 336 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO Legacies | 541 |
A Brief Chronology of the Japanese War | 553 |
Notes and Sources | 559 |
59 | 562 |
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