Военная история / Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire

Название: Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire
Автор: Peter Wetzler
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Год: 2020
Страниц: 257
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 14 MB

Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War reveals, Western imagination is often reductive in its explanation of the Japanese Empire and its collapse. In his analysis of the Emperor, Imperial Japanese Army and Navy during the Second World War, Peter Wetzler examines the disconnect between nation and state during wartime Japan and in doing so offers a much-needed nuanced and sensitive corrective to existing Western scholarship.