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American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#269448
Titel	American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan
Auteur	Harvey, Robert
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London, John Murray
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0719564999
ISBN13	9780719564994
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	From the mid-nineteenth century on, America and Japan were caught in an extraordinary political, military and economic duel. This clash was characterised by a cultural incompatibility that was to haunt the negotiations of their two leaders, Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur. Hirohito was a remarkable man. Diffident, uncharismatic and apparently obtuse, he survived as god-ruler of Japan for six decades through internal strife, war, defeat, occupation and economic victory. But Hirohito met his equal in MacArthur. Brash and domineering, MacArthur merited the honorary Japanese epithet shogun or 'army leader' for his almost single-handed six year rule over Japan. In this absorbing dual biography Robert Harvey traces their tense and complex relationship. His broad scope encompasses two gr... (Lees verder)eat nations in war and peace -- a momentous period of history which provides illuminating insight into American actions across the world today.
Pagina's	480
Conditie	Goed — Number on endpaper.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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