The end of the Pacific war : reappraisals / edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.

Collection type	Library
Author	Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941-;
Call Number	940.5352 E56
Document type	Monograph
Year	c2007.
Pagination	xvi, 331 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Stanford University Press,
Note	Includes index. Bibliography: p. [305]-319. "This book offers state-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender: Which was the critical factor, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the Soviet Union's entry into the war? Writing from the perspective of three different nationalities and drawing on newly available documents from Japan, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, five distinguished historians review the evidence and the arguments-and agree to disagree."--BOOK JACKET.
Place made	Stanford, Calif.

Abstract

Introduction / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Introducing the interpretive problems of Japan's 1945 surrender: a historiographical essay on recent literature in the West / Barton J. Bernstein -- Ketsu go: Japanese political and military strategy in 1945 / Richard B . Frank -- The atomic bomb and Soviet entry into the war: of equal importance / Sumio Hatano -- The atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion: which was more important in Japan's decision to surrender? / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Jockeying for position in the postwa r world: Soviet entry into the war with Japan in August 1945 / David Holloway -- The Soviet factor in ending the Pacific War: from the neutrality pact to Soviet entry into the war in august 1945 / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- 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.