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| Titre : | Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 |
| Auteurs : | Max Hastings |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-307-26351-3 |
| Index. décimale : | 940.542 (Campagnes et batailles) |
| Résumé : |
"Review""Hastings is a military historian in the grand tradition . . . He is equally adept at analyzing the broad sweep of strategy and creating thrilling set pieces that put the reader in the cockpit of a fighter plane or the conning tower of a submarine."" ""The great merit of Max Hastings's many books on war is his skill at bringing the numbers, as it were, down to earth. Through the imaginative power of his writing, we get an inkling . . . of what it must have been like to slog one's way up a cliff at Iwo Jima, or be firebombed in Tokyo."" ""Explosive, argumentative, intensely researched . . . Demands to be read. A book of stunning disclosures.""--Tom Mackin, Sunday Star-Ledger ""[A] masterful interpretive narrative . . . Hastings is both comprehensive and finely acute."" ""Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful. Hastings makes important points about the war in the East that have been all too rarely heard."" ""A triumph . . . The key to the book's success lies not in its accessibility, nor in its vivid portraits of the key figures in the drama--although it has both--but in something else entirely: the author's supremely confident ambition."" Product DescriptionHailed in Britain as ÔÇ£Spectacular . . . Searingly powerfulÔÇØ (Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that JapanÔÇÖs defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained to be seen. The ensuing dramaÔÇöthat ended in JapanÔÇÖs utter devastationÔÇöwas acted out across the vast stage of Asia, with massive clashes of naval and air forces, fighting through jungles, and barbarities by an apparently incomprehensible foe. In recounting the saga of this time and place, Max Hastings gives us incisive portraits of the theaterÔÇÖs key figuresÔÇöMacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailorsÔÇöAmerican, British, Russian, Chinese, and JapaneseÔÇöcaught in some of the warÔÇÖs bloodiest campaigns. With unprecedented insight, Hastings discusses JapanÔÇÖs war against China, now all but forgotten in the West, MacArthurÔÇÖs follies in the Philippines, the Marines at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria. He analyzes the decision-making process that led to the bombing of Hiroshima and NagasakiÔÇöwhich, he convincingly argues, ultimately saved lives. Finally, he delves into the Japanese wartime mind-set, which caused an otherwise civilized society to carry out atrocities that haunt the nation to this day. Retribution is a brilliant telling of an epic conflict from a master military historian at the height of his powers. " |
