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Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 de Waldo Heinrichs

Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Autor Waldo Heinrichs, Marc Gallicchio
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2019

Remarcăm în lucrarea Implacable Foes o perspectivă revizionistă necesară asupra ultimelor optsprezece luni ale conflictului din Pacific, o perioadă adesea umbrită în istoriografia clasică de victoria din Europa. Spre deosebire de abordările care se concentrează strict pe succesele tactice, autorii Waldo Heinrichs și Marc Gallicchio propun o analiză duală: pe de o parte, cronica brutală a campaniilor de tip „island-hopping” din Noua Guinee până în Okinawa, iar pe de altă parte, fragilitatea politică de la Washington. Găsim în această carte o descriere amănunțită a modului în care oboseala socială a americanilor și presiunile pentru demobilizarea trupelor au pus în pericol obiectivul victoriei necondiționate.

Suntem de părere că forța acestui volum de 744 de pagini rezidă în evidențierea conflictelor de comandă dintre figuri precum Marshall, MacArthur și Nimitz, sub spectrul unor pierderi umane ce păreau insurmontabile. Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă densă la Unconditional Defeat de Thomas W. Zeiler pentru cursurile de istorie militară, având avantajul unei integrări mult mai profunde a frontului domestic american în ecuația strategică. Dacă Unconditional Defeat pune accent pe contrastul dintre mobilizarea industrială și ideologia niponă, Implacable Foes ne arată cum politica internă și noul președinte neexperimentat au influențat direct deciziile de pe câmpul de luptă.

Lucrarea se înscrie în linia cercetărilor anterioare ale lui Waldo Heinrichs, precum Threshold of War, unde acesta explora incertitudinile administrației Roosevelt. Aici, autorul extinde acea metodologie de analiză a procesului decizional la nivel înalt, oferind o imagine completă a calculului sângeros care a precedat bombardamentele de la Hiroshima și Nagasaki.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190931520
ISBN-10: 0190931523
Pagini: 728
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 48 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cititorii interesați de complexitatea strategică a celui de-Al Doilea Război Mondial. Oferă o înțelegere profundă a dilemelor etice și militare din 1944-1945, demonstrând că victoria nu a fost doar rezultatul puterii de foc, ci și al unei lupte politice intense. Câștigați o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care demobilizarea prematură și opinia publică pot dicta soarta unui conflict global.

Despre autor

Waldo Heinrichs este profesor de istorie la Temple University și un specialist recunoscut în diplomația americană. Este autorul premiat al lucrării „American Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew”, pentru care a primit Premiul Allan Nevins. Experiența sa în consiliul editorial al revistei „Diplomatic History” se reflectă în rigoarea documentării din acest volum. Marc Gallicchio completează această expertiză prin cercetările sale asupra sfârșitului războiului, fiind și autorul volumului Unconditional. Împreună, cei doi istorici reușesc să îmbine istoria politică cu cea militară într-o sinteză echilibrată.

Descriere

May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day--shortened to "V.E. Day"--brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring and summer of 1945 had turned into a grueling campaign of bloody attrition against an enemy determined to fight to the last man. Germany had surrendered unconditionally. The Japanese would clearly make the conditions of victory extraordinarily high. Following V-E Day, American citizens understandably clamored for their young men to be shipped back from Europe and longed for a return to a peacetime economy. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to control policy. The challenge of defeating the Japanese had come to seem nearly insurmountable. American casualty rates during the previous eighteen months led Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall to warn of the toll that "the agony of enduring battle" would likely take. General Douglas MacArthur clashed with Marshall and Admiral Chester Nimitz over strategy. Meanwhile, under pressure, the Army began a program of partial demobilization of troops in Europe, which depleted units at a time when combat-tested soldiers were most needed. In this context of military emergency, the fearsome projections of the human cost of invading the Japanese homeland, and weakening social and political will in the American homeland, seemed to make victory, unconditional or otherwise, an increasingly distant prospect.In Implacable Foes, award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio bring to life the final year and a half of World War II in the Pacific, combining grand strategy and ground-level account, taking readers from the island-hopping campaigns in the spring of 1944--New Guinea to the Philippines to Okinawa and Iwo Jima--right up to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Heinrichs and Gallicchio reveal more fully than ever before not only the Japanese policies of desperate defense, but also the sometimes rancorous debates on the home front, and in the process deliver a gripping battle narrative integrated with a provocative and revisionist discussion of American decision-making. The result is a masterful work of military history, one that illuminates both the calculus of global war and the incalculable part played by individual sacrifice.

Recenzii

Two great historians have produced this stellar and extremely important book, adding critical new layers to the decision-making process of American leaders approaching the controversial end of the Asia-Pacific War. This is a thoroughly researched, judicious, and very sobering reminder of the complexity and uncertainty of events surrounding the final acts of World War II." - Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire and Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
A masterful history destined to be the definitive account of the final two years of America's war with Japan. The authors' comprehensive, original, and highly readable narrative sets new standards for understanding the political, military, and social pressures on U.S. leaders as they simultaneously fought a determined foe, demobilized American armed forces, and prepared for the complex transition to America's postwar domestic economy." - Edward Drea, author of Japan's Imperial Army
Implacable Foes is a superbly researched work of both original scholarship and synthesis on the last two years of the Pacific War by two eminent and award-winning historians. Their detailed analysis and conclusions will challenge some long-held beliefs about U.S. strategic planning and operations in this conflict while reinforcing others." - Mark A. Stoler, Editor, George C. Marshall Papers, Professor Emeritus of History University of Vermont
In their detailed and insightful analysis of the last year of the Pacific War, Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio tie military operations closely with the political, strategic, logistical, and even cultural context to provide a thorough assessment of the war, and they do so without losing any of the inherent drama of events." - Craig Symonds, author of Midway and Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe
A valuable and revealing study...For readers familiar with the military campaigns, the book is essential reading for its lucid treatment of the pressures that imperiled critical operations in a truly global war...the contribution of this vital book is its portrait of history as lived desperately in the moment; of the varied troubles that beset planners and commanders in the war's horrific last year; and of the mettle and vision of an American president whom history should underrate no longer. "Implacable Foes" shows war operations as a human ordeal even at the highest level, fueled by the exhaustible human spirit." - Wall Street Journal
This book is a superb piece of military and naval history. It blends the particular and the general, the battlefront and the homefront, the broader political and international and the militarily particular into an eminently readable narrative. It should be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history of the Second World War." - Journal of Military History
This book brings to life those final years of World War II right up to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, evoking not only Japanese policies of desperate defence, but the sometimes spiteful debates on the home-front. Heinrichs and Gallicchio deliver a gripping and provocative narrative that challenges the decision

Notă biografică

Waldo Heinrichs is Dwight E. Stanford Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University. He is the author of American Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition, which won the Allan Nevins Prize. Heinrichs served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army's 86th Division, one of the last two divisions to be deployed to Europe in World War II and the first to be redeployed to the Pacific in preparation for the invasion of Japan. He and his wife live in South Hadley, Massachusetts.Marc Gallicchio is a Professor of History at Villanova University and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in Japan, 1998 - 1999 and 2004 - 2005. He is the author of The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895 - 1945, which won the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell book prize.