The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
- Authors
- Akira Iriye & Charles Warren
- Publisher
- Longman
- Tags
- history , general
- ISBN
- 9780582493490
- Date
- 1987-09-15T20:43:24+00:00
- Size
- 3.06 MB
- Lang
- en
Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan, which had not been able to defeat the isolated and divided forces of China, decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?