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Table of Contents:

• 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 gō: 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 postwar 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.

Contributors:

Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Stanford nuclear age series

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 — Armistices

World War, 1939-1945 — Japan

World War, 1939-1945 — Soviet Union

World War, 1939-1945 — United States

World War (1939-1945)

1939-1945

Armistices

Soviet Union

United States

Japan

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-319) and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 331 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

D813.J3 E64 2007

ISBNs:

0804754276 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780804754279 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2006028407

OCLC Numbers:

71243901