Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Japan the Taliban, 1921–1941
Chapter 2: Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Northern China, and the End of Internationalism, 1931–1937
Chapter 3: The War in Northern and Central China
Chapter 4: The War in China after 1938 and the Decision for War in the Pacific, 1939–1941
Chapter 5: The Pacific War Unleashed: The Initial Japanese Attacks
Chapter 6: The Japanese Victory
Chapter 7: The Japanese Dilemma
Bibliography

About the Author

Haruo Tohmatsu is the co-author (with H. P. Willmott and W. Spencer Johnson) of Pearl Harbor. Haruo has contributed to a several military history publications, including Reader's Guide to Military History, History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, Encyclopedia of Naval History, Encyclopedia of World War I, and Encyclopedia of World War II. Currently Tohmatsu is assisting with the Sino-Japanese War Project at Harvard University's East Asia Center. He is associate professor of international relations at Tamagawa University in Japan. Distinguished historian H. P. Willmott is the author of The War with Japan: The Period of Balance, May 1942-October 1943 (in SR Books' Pacific War trilogy), Battleship, and co-author of Pearl Harbor. In addition, Willmott is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War and Society, De Montfort University, and a Visiting Lecturer at Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich.

Reviews

In this installment to the series entitled Total War: New Perspectives on World War II, edited by Michael A. Barnhart and H.P. Willmott, the latter has teamed up with Haruo Tohmatsu to produce a concise account of the events that led to the outbreak of war in the Pacific against the Allies in late 1941.
*Pacific Affairs*

Tohmatsu and Willmott see the coming of the Pacific War as an ever-expanding series of conflicts begun by the Japanese army in Manchuria in 1931 and continuing through 1942. By focusing on the activities of the Japanese army and navy high command rather than diplomats between 1921 and 1942, this book provides a fresh perspective on the outbreak of the Pacific War. Recommended. It will be of interest to advanced students of the Pacific War.
*CHOICE*

The book is a lively piece of critical writing from which the university student and the general reader will derive many new insights. It is novel in concept and rich in new information.
*War in History*