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• Preface
• The Allies Prepare
• The Axis Defenses of Sicily
• Invasion
• The Eighth Army's Drive
• The Seventh Army's Drive
• The Fall of Mussolini
• Confusion
• Race for Messina
• The Surrender of Italy and the Surprise that Wasn't
• Unrest at Quadrant
• Salerno
• The Strategic Trap
• A Series of Delaying Actions...
• The Advance Is Stopped
• The Rapido River Fiasco
• Crossing
• Anzio
• The Attack on Cassino
• The Bombing of Monte Cassino
• The Germans at Anzio
• Spring Offensive
• The End of the Gustav Line
• Breakthrough
• The Fall of Rome
• North from Rome
• Cracking the Gothic Line
• The Center of the Line
• Winter Doldrums
• To the Bitter End
• Bibliographic Essay
• Index.
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A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy - an assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic thinking between the Americans and the British. Churchill favoured scrapping what would become the Normandy Invasion entirely, focusing instead on the "soft underbelly" of Nazi Europe, but American planners summarily rejected any plan that relied solely on a southern option. This is the story of this backwater campaign, a series of battles skillfully staged by the Germans and so botched by the Allies that their victory was achieved only as a result of German exhaustion.
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This biography of Japanese army general and dictatorial prime minister Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) covers his early, easy World War II victories (including Pearl Harbor); his subsequent crushing defeats; and his trial and execution as a war criminal.
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Throughout the spring and summer of 1945, Major General Curtis LeMay and his squadron of B29 bombers targeted Tokyo and numerous Japanese cities with near-nightly incendiary bombing campaigns.
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Here, for the first time, is the story of the ultimate air campaign and its leader, Hermann Goering, creator and commander of the Luftwaffe, the most feared weapon of Germany's "unbeatable" war-machine. Master historian Hoyt offers true details behind Goering, his power, men, and strategy.
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Now for the first time, the epic battle for Stalingrad is depicted in all its electrifying excitement and savage horror, on its 50th anniversary. Hoyt re-creates the words and deeds of the battle's chief participants--its ruthless warlords, Hitler and Stalin, and its generals, soldiers and civilians, who fought and died in the bloodiest battle in history. 32 pages of photos.
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• Preparing for Pearl Harbour
• Preparing the Attack on Pearl Harbour
• The Attack on Pearl Harbour
• Victories
• In the Coral Sea
• The Battle of Midway
• Starting Over
• Guadalcanal Disaster
• Turning Point - Guadalcanal
• The Illusion of Air Power
• The Death of an Admiral
• Seeking the Decisive Battle
• The End of Power
• The Fifth Air Fleet
• The Hope that Failed
• Falling Like Cherry Blossoms Into the Sea
• Operation Ten Go
• The Long Summer
• The Last Kamikaze.
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This is the story of a man and a navy, Vice-Admiral Matome Ugaki and the Imperial Japanese Navy. By 1945 the Imperial Navy was physically destroyed and Admiral Ugaki was given the task of defending the Japanese homeland against attack, and he sent hundreds of kamikazes against the American naval forces operating around Okinawa. After Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender on August 15, Ugaki stripped off his insignia of rank, climbed into a torpedo bomber, and flew to Okinawa, where he intended to crash into an American ship. But like so many of the other kamikazes, his mission was fruitless, his plane was shot down by American nightfighters. But Admiral Ugaki died, as he had promised to do, in the fashion of the thousands of young men he had sent to their deaths. Vice-Admiral Matome Ugaki was the only high official of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have left a significant record, in the form of a diary started during the preparations for the China Incident, and kept throughout the war, from the planning phase of 1940, through the Pearl Harbour attack, and up until Japan's surrender. Hoyt draws on the diary and numerous other accounts by admirals and historians to create a picture of a Japanese Navy that began in a position of strength but was eventually destroyed by powerful Allied forces, shattering Japan's drive for conquest.
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This work is a triple biography of the principal figures in modern Japanese military history. It includes their victories, and the militaristic distortions of bushido that doomed the nation to years of totalitarianism and war.
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• The emperor speaks
• Perfect harmony
• Emperor Meiji - a modern man
• Hirohito enters
• A voyage of discovery
• violence in Japan
• Emperor
• The rape of Manchuria
• Against the Emperor's will
• The struggle for power
• The first crisis
• Four days that shook Japan
• The China War
• Incident or war?
• The strike to the North
• War
• Days of victory
• The juggernaut stops
• The long week
• Capitulation
• A ray of hope
• The politics of democracy
• The emperor
• A dream come true
• The last year
• The heart of Japan
• The role of the emperor.
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Was Emperor Hirohito to blame for Japan's expansionist military policies - and its attrocities - in World War II? Was he out to make the world his empire? This biography of the emperor challenges portrayals of Hirohito as either an unworldly scientist or a swashbuckling conspirator who tried to conquer the globe with military might. Using sources uncovered as recently as 1991, Hoyt reveals that the emperor was fundamentally a peace-loving man caught in a turbulent period when the Japanese military gained extraordinary power. He became the virtual prisoner of an Imperial system that prevented him from leading his country into an era of peace and prosperity, his boyhood dream. Hoyt's account, backed by a decade of research, details the emperor's repeated attempts to thwart the Imperial Army's headlong drive toward war. Even when defeat was certain, Hoyt maintains, Hirohito had to outmanoevre the army in order to surrender to Allied forces. Only then, in postwar years, did the emperor see his wishes for his country come true. To help the reader assess the emperor's life, Hoyt begins by examining the years preceding Hirohito's reign. He then focuses on the Manchurian incidents, the struggle for power in Japan, the China war, the global conflict and Japan's role in it, and the country's final capitulation. Critical passages on events preceding and during the World War II, supported by the recently released diaries of men close to the emperor, detail the process by which Hirohito increasingly lost power as the army gained control. Turning his attention to the post-war years, Hoyt chronicles Japan's economic growth and the changing role of the emperor in Japanese society. Photographs from Japanese sources enhance the narrative. "Hirohito: the Emperor and the Man" offers new insight into the motives of a widely misunderstood leader. Hoyt's Hirohito is a quiet man with scholarly leanings; a patriot who loved his country but also admired Western qualities; a monarch who wished to act responsibly at a critical juncture but lacked the authority to do so.
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In the wake of scandals involving bribery and corruption, the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party continues in power and seems unlikely to be ousted. The reason lies in the complacencey of the Japanese people, according to the author, who casts a critical eye over Japanese society in general.
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The first oral history to tell the story of World War II through the eyes of the fliers who actuallly fought it--in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and defending America's Atlantic coast. The result is a controversial, stirring narrative. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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The untold story of the U.S. Seventh Fleet is brought brilliantly to life by veteran military historian Edwin P. Hoyt. Two 8-page black-and-white illustration inserts.
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The pawns on the chessboard of war, the field soldiers, speak eloquently about the glories and horrors of World War II and give their frank opinions and impressions of their commanding officers and allies. 16 pages of photos.
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