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  • Shots in the Dark

    Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War

    by Jadwiga Biskupska, Sara B. Castro, Robert Citino, Claire Cookson-Hills, Elena Friot, Brian Hayashi, Derek Mallett, Erina Megowan, Adrian O'Sullivan0, Katrin Paehler1, Kevin Riehle2, Jeff Rutherford3, Victoria Sotvedt4, Cameron Zinsou5 ...
    Series series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
    Brings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the warShots in the Dark offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new insights into how this crucial conflict was planned, experienced, and fought. Twelve chapters demonstrate the broad scope of wartime innovation and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Asian American Spies

    How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

    by Brian Masaru Hayashi ...
    A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with Axis Powers. All these colorful ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Democratizing the Enemy

    The Japanese American Internment

    by Brian Masaru Hayashi ...
    During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called "assembly centers" surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries.In this insightful and groundbreaking work, Brian Hayashi reevaluates the three-year ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Pacific America

    Histories of Transoceanic Crossings

    by Lon Kurashige, Eiichiro Azuma, Keith L. Camacho, Greg Dvorak, Professor Augusto Espiritu, Dr. Peter E. Hamilton, Professor Brian Masaru Hayashi, Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor Phuong Nguyen, Professor Christen T. Sasaki0, Professor Elizabeth Sinn1, John E. Wills, , Jr.2, Professor Susie Woo3, Yujin Yaguchi4, Professor Kariann Akemi Yokota5 ...
    In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

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    The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

    by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch ...
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  • The Rape of Nanking

    The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II

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  • Judgment at Tokyo

    World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

    by Gary J. Bass ...
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  • Shanghai 1937

    Stalingrad on the Yangtze

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television.At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often victims. It turned what had been a Japanese imperialist adventure in China into a general war between the two ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

    by John J. Mearsheimer ...
    "A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—The National Interest, Barry R. PosenA decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered ... Read more

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  • The Korean War

    A History

    by Bruce Cumings ...
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    A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, ... Read more

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  • Blood and Ruins

    The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

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    **“Monumental… [A] vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II. Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire.” – The Wall Street JournalA thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain’s leading military historianA New York Times bestseller**Richard ... Read more

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  • The Coldest Winter

    America and the Korean War

    by David Halberstam ...
    From a journalist and bestselling author of The Best and the Brightest, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy.**"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." —**The New York TimesDavid Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict ... Read more

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