Imperial Japan's World War Two, 1931-1945
"The full extent and brutality of Imperial Japan's actions before and during the Second World War has not had the same cultural and political resonances as those of Nazi Germany, nor are they as well remembered. Werner Gruhl's objective is to present a fresh overview of the Asian-Pacific War and its victims, drawing particular attention to the neglected history of Japan's invasion of China and Southeast Asia. Gruhl seeks to show that the war in Asia and the Pacific is as much about Shanghai, Nanking, and Manila as about Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Hiroshima."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2007
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, ©2007
254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780765803528, 0765803526
76871604
Introduction
1. Remembrance: the matter of representation in WWII historiography
2. War victims and statistics
3. War and peace and imperial Japan
4. The stage of tragedy
5. The expanded stage for tragedy
6. Violent death in China
7. Violent death in Southeast Asia and the Indian and Pacific islands
8. Forced laborers, refugees, and privation victims
9. The raped, tortured, prisoners, and the horrific total
10. Devastation
11. China's plight and contribution to Allied victory
12. Responsibility for war and war crimes
13. The bombs of August: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in perspective
14. Conclusion