Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan

Traces the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and examines the major battles and campaigns

History

SPECTOR, RONALD H.

Europe

Free Press

Advice and Support: The Early Years of the United States Army in Vietnam, 1941-1960

Asia

Free Pr

Recounts the experience of American soldiers in the Vietnam War during the watershed year of 1968, which saw individual bravery against the background of political vacillation, the deterioration of race relations, and the growth of the drug culture.

After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam

Americas

At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century

Beginning with a gripping account of one of the most decisive naval battles in history-the 1905 battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and Russians-and ending with the sophisticated missile engagements of the Falklands and in the Persian Gulf, naval historian Ronald Spector explores every facet of the past one hundred years of naval warfare. Drawing from more than one hundred diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews, this is, above all, a masterful narrative of the human side of combat at sea-real stories told from the point of view of the sailors who experienced it. Exhaustively researched and fascinating in detail, At War at Sea is a monumental history of the men, the ships, and the battles fought on the high seas. "Superb . . . Spector's account provides evocative and fresh perspectives on cultures, technologies and innovations that influenced sailors' lives and shaped naval warfare." (The San Diego Union-Tribune) "Monumental . . . Many books have recorded the history of the United States Navy, but few have meshed that history with that of all other major navies-an unusual comparative technique that brings into often startling relief the virtues and flaws of our own navy." (The Washington Post)"

Military

Penguin Publishing Group

The United States Army in Vietnam--Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960

United States Government Printing

United States Army in Vietnam. Traces the origins of the Army's involvement in Indochina from World War 2 to the end of the Eisenhower Administration.

Advice and Support: The Early Years 1941-1960 : United States Army in Vietnam

S/N 008-020-00967-9

United States Govt Printing Office

The book traces the origins of the Army’s long, and frequently unhappy, involvement in Indochina from World War II to the end of the Eisenhower administration.   This work describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate postwar years, and the advisory program that developed after Geneva Agreements of 1954.  The scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a background of relevant military and political developments.  Useful not only as a study of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent in national policy, this volume is a fitting introduction to the overall study of the conflict in Vietnam.

Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960: The Early Years, 1941-1960 (United States Army in Vietnam)

Government Printing Office

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Eagle Against the Sun : The American War with Japan

Cassell & Co.

Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan

Cassell Military Paperbacks

A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945–1955

A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II―and determined the fate of the continent. 
The end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled “the long peace.” Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya―the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought to completely sever the yoke of imperialism and colonialism with all-too-violent consequences. 
East and Southeast Asia quickly became the most turbulent regions of the globe. Within weeks of the famous surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, civil war, communal clashes, and insurgency engulfed the continent, from Southeast Asia to the Soviet border. By early 1947, full-scale wars were raging in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam, with growing guerrilla conflicts in Korea and Malaya. Within a decade after the Japanese surrender, almost all of the countries of South, East, and Southeast Asia that had formerly been conquests of the Japanese or colonies of the European powers experienced wars and upheavals that resulted in the deaths of at least 2.5 million combatants and millions of civilians. 
With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries, and international archives to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive military history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events. Far from being simply offshoots of the Cold War, as they have often been portrayed, these shockingly violent conflicts forever changed the shape of Asia, and the world as we know it today. 8-page black-and-white insert

W.W.Norton&Company

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