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Willmott - The Second World War in the East.

1 pdf, 86 MB.

Detailed maps, period photos, helpful chronologies are all included, along with a substantial political and military overview. Above all, what you get is context. We don"t wade in with Pearl Harbor. Instead, we start with Japan"s imperialistic expansionist policies of the 1920s and "30s with its ongoing secret war with China, from which Pearl Harbor became a logical, opportunistic extension. And Japan almost got away with it. For a year they cleaned up everything that stood in their way, and by 1942 were in possession of the East Indies, Hong Kong, Malaya, and the Philippines. But then the fight back began; first at the Midway Islands and then slowly, slowly through the Solomon Islands and the Philippines, until it became a battle for Japan itself.