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Œuvres de Joseph C. Grew

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Date de naissance
1880-05-27
Date de décès
1965-05-25
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Tokyo, Japan
Études
Harvard University
Professions
diplomat
ambassador
Organisations
United States Department of State

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(first published 1944)
political, economic, and diplomatic events that led to Japan bombing Pearl Harbor.
Drawn from the Diaries & Private & Official Papers of J.C. Grew
Grew was US Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until Pearl Harbor, and was held by the Japanese until mid-1942. This book is a Contemporary Record drawn from his diaries & official papers, & as such, is an important source for an historian.
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Foreword
The Assassin's Shadow Lies Across Japan
Three Years of Calm Before the Storm
From Abortive Revolution to Open War
China Incident
One World: Two Wars
One World: One War
Japanese Officials & Foreign Diplomats

One of my big take-aways from this book is how shaky Japan's pact with Germany was. Once Japan started fighting China in 1937, one of their primary concerns was war with the Soviet Union. When Germany concluded its non-aggression pact with the Soviets, Japan worked to achieve the same thing. Then, just days after concluding the pact Hitler launched Barbarossa, generating turmoil amongst Japanese leadership and resulting in a change of government.
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MasseyLibrary | Mar 7, 2018 |
This extraordinary book is remarkable for its timing just after Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Ambassador to Japan writes a humanitarian appeal to the American public to help understand the necessity of war with Japan, as well as what the war should not be, as in a racist retaliation, which it partly became.
 
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sungene | Oct 30, 2007 |

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Œuvres
9
Membres
91
Popularité
#204,136
Évaluation
3.0
Critiques
2
ISBN
9

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