The end of the Pacific war
Subtitle: reappraisals
By: edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.
Contributors: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941-
Series: Stanford nuclear age series
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780804754279
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Armistices; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; title: Introducing the interpretive problems of Japan's 1945 surrender: a historiographical essay on recent literature in the West / Barton J. Bernstein; title: Ketsu gō: Japanese political and military strategy in 1945 / Richard B. Frank; title: The atomic bomb and Soviet entry into the war: of equal importance / Sumio Hatano; title: The atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion: which was more important in Japan's decision to surrender? / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; title: Jockeying for position in the postwar world: Soviet entry into the war with Japan in August 1945 / David Holloway; title: The Soviet factor in ending the Pacific War: from the neutrality pact to Soviet entry into the war in august 1945 / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; title: Conclusion: the interpretive dialogue,1989-2005, and various proposals for understanding the ending of the war and why and how Japan surrendered / Barton J. Bernstein.