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Book Synopsis Afternoon of the Rising Sun by : Kenneth I. Friedman
Download or read book Afternoon of the Rising Sun written by Kenneth I. Friedman and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1944: The Batle of Leyte Gulf was the greatest battle in naval history, with over 250 vessels involved, yet its outcome depended on the nerve of a handful of sailors and the opposing commanders. 32 photos. 20 maps.
Book Synopsis Rising Sun: A Novel by : Michael Crichton
Download or read book Rising Sun: A Novel written by Michael Crichton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests. “As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be.”—The New York Times Book Review On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles—the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate—a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered. The investigation immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue, a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital American technology is the fiercely coveted prize—and in which the Japanese saying “Business is war” takes on a terrifying reality. “A grand maze of plot twists . . . Crichton’s gift for spinning a timely yarn is going to be enough, once again, to serve a current tenant of the bestseller list with an eviction notice.”—New York Daily News “The action in Rising Sun unfolds at a breathless pace.”—Business Week
Download or read book Islands of Destiny written by John Prados and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted. Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and when the Pacific tide turned in the Allies’ favor. Using archives of WWII intelligence reports from both sides, Prados offers up a compelling reassessment of the true turning in the Pacific: not Midway, but the fight for the Solomon Islands. Combat in the Solomons saw a series of surface naval battles, including one of the key battleship-versus-battleship actions of the war; two major carrier actions; daily air duels, including the aerial ambush in which perished the famous Japanese naval commander Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku; and many other hair-raising exploits. Commencing with the Allied invasion of Guadalcanal, Prados shows how and why the Allies beat Japan on the sea, in the air, and in the jungles.
Book Synopsis Naval Warfare 1919-45 by : Malcolm H. Murfett
Download or read book Naval Warfare 1919-45 written by Malcolm H. Murfett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval Warfare 1919–45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval theatres and those powers performing major, as well as minor, roles within them. Armed with the latest material from an extensive set of sources, Malcolm H. Murfett has written an absorbing as well as a comprehensive reference work. He demonstrates that superior equipment and the best intelligence, ominous power and systematic planning, vast finance and suitable training are often simply not enough in themselves to guarantee the successful outcome of a particular encounter at sea. Sometimes the narrow difference between victory and defeat hinges on those infinite variables: the individual’s performance under acute pressure and sheer luck. Naval Warfare 1919–45 is an analytical and interpretive study which is an accessible and fascinating read both for students and for interested members of the general public.
Book Synopsis That They May Face the Rising Sun by : John McGahern
Download or read book That They May Face the Rising Sun written by John McGahern and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be the finest Irish writer now working in prose, John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun vividly brings to life a whole world and its people with insight and humour and deep sympathy. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. By the novel's close we feel that we have been introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere. 'It is a simple and ordinary story, calmly, wryly crafted with subtle detail - and therein lies McGahern's genius. As sharply, brilliantly observed as any he has written . . . McGahern, a supreme chronicler of the ordinary . . . has created a novel that lives and breathes as convincingly as the characters who inhabit it.' Irish Times
Book Synopsis Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun by : Gene Eric Salecker
Download or read book Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun written by Gene Eric Salecker and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater. Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers. Detailed maps illustrate battles.
Book Synopsis The Pacific War by : William B. Hopkins
Download or read book The Pacific War written by William B. Hopkins and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “important comprehensive study” of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory (Roanoke Times). Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological narratives. In The Pacific War, William B. Hopkins, a Marine Corps veteran of the Pacific war and respected military history author, opens the story of the Pacific campaign to a broader and deeper view. Hopkins investigates the strategies, politics, and personalities that shaped the fighting. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land, sea, and air offers an insightful perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific, and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island, Hopkins’ account offers a fresh way of understanding the hows—and more significantly, the whys—of the Pacific War.
Book Synopsis Setting the Rising Sun by : Kevin A. Mahoney
Download or read book Setting the Rising Sun written by Kevin A. Mahoney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the summer of 1945, Adm. Bull Halsey’s U.S. Third Fleet had fought its way far enough in the Pacific that its carrier-based fighters could launch attacks on Japan itself in preparation for the invasion of the home islands, planned for the fall of 1945. This mission U.S. Navy fighters, fighter-bombers, dive-bombers, and torpedo-bombers—Hellcats, Avengers, Helldivers, and more—carried out with a vengeance, striking airfields, industrial targets, and coastal facilities while flying into the teeth of Japanese air defenses. Meanwhile, the fleet’s aircraft continued to attack the Japanese navy (sinking a submarine from the air, attacking—but not sinking—the famous battleship Nagato, and attacking other ships), interdict enemy merchant shipping, and defend against kamikaze attacks on Third Fleet. As late as the morning of August 15—the day the ceasefire took effect (before the formal signing on September 2)—the fighters saw hard fighting, downing Japanese fighters making last-ditch, almost literally last-minute attacks on the U.S. fleet. Numerous books have covered the American bomber war against Japan in World War II, from the Doolittle Raid to Curtis Lemay’s strategic bombing campaign, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the dropping of the atomic bombs. But other than memoirs and bit parts in air war histories, fighter and fighter-bomber operations have received short shrift. Setting the Rising Sun corrects that oversight, zooming in on fighters during the war’s final two months. In this carefully researched narrative history, Kevin Mahoney recounts this vital period of the Pacific War with drama and attention to detail. He draws on both American and Japanese perspectives to reconstruct intense combat missions and place them in the context of a war that was hurtling toward its conclusion in two mushroom clouds in Japan.
Book Synopsis Reading Erskine Caldwell by : Robert L. McDonald
Download or read book Reading Erskine Caldwell written by Robert L. McDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erskine Caldwell has been compared to literary giants like Faulkner and Hemingway, yet he has also been reviled as peddler of pop trash. Was he a genius, or just a shooting star whose brilliance faded long before he stopped writing? Caldwell began his career in the late 1920s and gained fame for revealing the gritty backwoods South in novels such as his seminal Tobacco Road. He wrote prolifically, sometimes as much as a book a year. As the editor of this book maintains, perhaps anyone who wrote so much would inevitably stumble. These 12 essays explore a variety of issues. They discuss Caldwell as humorist, social commentator, modernist, and revolutionary novelist. They examine his themes and tropes (political images, social injustice, the environment, ideological struggles) and his use of artistic devices (short stories, cubist strategies, repetition). A generous bibliography includes not only books on Caldwell but also chapters and forewords, journal articles, essays, news items and obituaries. The reader is encouraged to look at Caldwell with fresh eyes, to press beyond his controversial image, and to compare his works, especially his early ones, to those of any of the top names in literature.
Book Synopsis Towards the Land of the Rising Sun by : Sister Katherine
Download or read book Towards the Land of the Rising Sun written by Sister Katherine and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Dawn of the Rising Sun by : Kenneth I. Friedman, Ph.d.
Download or read book Dawn of the Rising Sun written by Kenneth I. Friedman, Ph.d. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using painstaking research and gifted insight, Dr. Kenneth I. Friedman, a talented and meticulous historian and writer, investigates the reasons why Imperial Japan declared war on the US, the British Empire, and other Western powers during World War II. Dr. Friedman's probing and in-depth analysis traces almost a century of US–Japan relations in this epic and stylish quest to provide a comprehensive and easy-to-read analysis offering detailed, historically accurate answers. The book begins with the arrival of American Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853, passes through the Meiji Restoration between 1868–1912, the Russo-Japanese War (ending in 1905 via the treaty signed at Theodore Roosevelt's “Summer White House” at Oyster Bay, Long Island), Japan's entry in World War I that ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the Japanese operational, strategic and tactical push into Northeast and Southeast Asia, and eventually heads through the clouds for the airstrike on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and thus usher in America's entry into a global war waxed rich with global aims. In his third book about World War II, Friedman crafts an historical narrative telling the story of Japan's march to an Armageddon that ended in fire and smoke. His sophisticated analysis captures the intrigues, drama, and geopolitical maneuvering which eventually led Japan to attack the US.The genesis of Dr. Friedman's analysis offers the true story of Japan as a star-crossed nation during its evolution from a country content to stay in its relatively peaceful isolation from the rest of the world to becoming a de facto world power on a collision course with destiny.Dawn of the Rising Sun addresses the Japanese reasons for attacking the Western Powers on December 7, 1941. Almost all of the analysis comes from the Japanese perspective. Various Japanese sources are used and explained to offer a broad cultural background and context. Conversations between Japanese and Western leaders have been based on source material in an effort to augment some of the most dramatic moments in world history. Taking a long-view of the emerging balance of power between Japan and America, Dr. Friedman focuses on the arrival of Perry and Harris in the 1850s, the downfall of the Shogunate rule ending in 1868, Japan making war with and defeating China at the end of the 19th Century, steadily disposing of Czarist Russia, and the awakening of the Japanese colonial spirit to see colonies overseas were the major events that propelled Japan to attacking the Americans. Japan felt she had missed out on her chance for global expansion, and, during the 1920s and 1930s, a militaristic tone permeated Japanese domestic and foreign policy in an effort to safeguard her imperialistic gains on the Asian continent. Cut off from oil by America, Japan believed it had no choice but to attack the Hawaiian Islands and other American, Dutch, and British possessions in the Western Pacific.The path of Japan from feudalism to a modern hyper power with state-of-the art weaponry is brought to life with stunning detail with more than fifty maps, charts, and graphics as well as numerous photographs. World War II drew Japan into an alliance with Nazi Germany and pushed Imperial Japanese forces into India and onto the fringes of Australia. Why did these events happen? Readers will continue turning the pages from one fabulous set of facts and intrigues to the next as Friedman hits yet another home run in his stunning troika of World War II works.
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Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Illinois Farmers' Institute
Download or read book Annual Report written by Illinois Farmers' Institute and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reports of County farmers' institutes for the year ...
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Illinois Farmers' Institute by : Illinois Farmers' Institute
Download or read book Annual Report of the Illinois Farmers' Institute written by Illinois Farmers' Institute and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : Illinois Farmers' Institute
Download or read book Report written by Illinois Farmers' Institute and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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