This is a review of the book discussed in the last post I wrote to you. The author, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is a Professor of History and Director of the Center for Cold War Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, incidentally, not a fish monger. This is a new book, new research, new analysis. New, new, new!!!
It would be so refreshing around here if people could at least consider reading new material, formulating a new opinion here or there, or doing something besides just completely insulting any information or source that does not already support part of their understanding of the world.
Racing the Enemy : Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Hardcover)
by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
List Price: $29.95
Editorial Reviews
Review
In this landmark study, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa gives us the first truly international history of the critical final months leading to Japan's surrender. Absorbing and authoritative, provocative and fair-minded, Racing the Enemy is required reading for anyone interested in World War II and in twentieth-century world affairs. A marvelously illuminating work.
Book Description
Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by fully integrating the three key actors in the story--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered.
About the Author
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Cold War Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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