A war it was always going to lose : why Japan attacked America in 1941 /

Makes sense of Japan's seemingly incomprehensible decision to go to war against the United States.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Record, Jeffrey.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2011.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a "strategic imbecility"?
  • Sources of Japanese-American tension
  • Japanese aggression and U.S. policy responses, 1937-1941
  • Japanese assumptions and decision making
  • Failed deterrence
  • Was the Pacific War inevitable?
  • The enduring lessons of 1941.