A study of the American plans for invading Japan and the Japanese defense plans. "In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading u…
A study of the American plans for invading Japan and the Japanese defense plans. "In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading u…
Distinguished historian Brendon brings the tragic, dismal days of the 1930s to life in this sweeping narrative. "The Dark Valley" captures the vast scope of history as well as the minutia of everyday life, rendering a huge topic comprehensible and creating a gripping, page-turni…
A magisterial, unprecedented overview of the clouded and turbulent years before World War II. It was a decade dominated worldwide by the Great Depression, by unemployment and hardship; a time when human achievement was matched by pervasive fear; when the great neon metaphors of …
Distinguished historian Brendon brings the tragic, dismal days of the 1930s to life in this sweeping narrative. "The Dark Valley" captures the vast scope of history as well as the minutia of everyday life, rendering a huge topic comprehensible and creating a gripping, page-turni…
"In 'Promiscuous Media', Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese cinema of the time was in fact almost whol…
