I Vesten har vi for vane at sige, at Anden Verdenskrig begyndte i 1939 med Hitlers overfald på Polen. I Østasien ved de bedre: De første skud faldt allerede to år tidligere. Kina... Læs mere
First in a trilogy of books comprising a general history of war in the Asia Pacific, from the origins of enmity between Japan and China, through Japan’s ascendancy in the early years of World War II.
This book describes how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters that touched every corner of the Asia Pacific.
A global account of how – as the outcome of World War II still hung in the balance – millions of men and women around the world, torn from their civilian lives, passed the most important holiday of the Christian year.
The story of how Bernhard Sindberg single-handedly saved thousands of civilians during the Japanese orgy of violence in the Chinese capital in late 1937 and early 1938.
An account of the deadly cat-and-mouse game between Americans and Germans that played out on the world’s biggest island as both sides in the war recognized its pivotal strategic role.