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Asian Armageddon, 1944-45 (Hardback)

Military > By Century > 20th Century WWII World History > Asia > Asian Wars

By Peter Harmsen
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: War in the Far East
Pages: 272
Illustrations: 30 b/w photographs
ISBN: 9781612006277
Published: 10th December 2021

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The last instalment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as was the fact that the US Navy carried out the only successful submarine campaign in history, reducing Japan's military and merchant navies to shadows of the former selves. Meanwhile, fighting continued in disparate geographic conditions on land, with the chaos of Imphal, the inferno of Manila, and the carnage of Iwo Jima forming some of milestones on the bloody road to peace, sealed in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. The nuclear blasts at the end of the war made one observer feel as if he was ‘present at the creation’. Indeed, the participants in the events in the Asia Pacific in the mid-1940s were present at the creation of a new and dangerous world. It was a world where the stage was set for the Cold War and for international rivalries that last to this day, and a new constellation of powers emerged, with the outlines, just over the horizon, of a rising China.  

 

War in the Far East is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of World War II in the Asia Pacific. Unlike other histories on the conflict it goes into its deep origins, beginning long before Pearl Harbor, and encompasses a far wider group of actors to produce the most complete account yet written on the subject and the first truly international treatment of this epic conflict. Author Peter Harmsen weaves together complex events into a revealing and entertaining narrative, including facets of the war that may be unknown even to avid readers of World War II history, from the mass starvations that cost the lives of millions across China, Indochina and India to the war in subarctic conditions in the Aleutians. Harmsen pieces together the full range of perspectives, reflecting what war was like both at the top and on the ground.

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About Peter Harmsen

Peter Harmsen, has been a foreign correspondent in East Asia for two decades. His reports have appeared in the Financial Times and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has also worked for Bloomberg, the Economist Intelligence Unit and French news agency AFP. His previous book, Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, has been translated into Romanian and Chinese.

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