British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bond, Brian; Tachikawa, Kyoichi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135766238
• Artikelnr.: 57533336

Autorenporträt

Brian Bond is Emeritus Professor of Military History at King's College London and President of the British Commission for Military History. Festschrift to mark his retirement in 2002, The British General Staff, edited by David French and Brian Holden Reid, was published by Frank Cass and awarded the Templer Prize Medal for Military History. He is author of many books on military history, the most recent being The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History (2002). Kyoichi Tachikawa is Senior Research Fellow at the Military History Department, National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded an MA from Sophia University in 1990 and a PhD in 1999.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Britain's Grand Strategy for War against Japan 2. Tojo Hideki as a War
Leader 3. The Army Level of Command: General Sir William Slim and the
Fourteenth Army in Burma 4. Leadership in Japan's Planning for War against
Britain 5. Crisis of Command: Major-General Gordon Bennett and British
military effectiveness in the Malayan Campaign, 1941-42 6. General
Yamashita and His Style of Leadership: The Malaya/Singapore campaign 7.
British Tactical Command and Leadership in the Burma Campaign, 1941-45 8.
Japanese War Leadership in the Burma Theatre: The Imphal Operation 9.
British Leadership in Air Operations: Malaya and Burma 10. Air Operational
Leadership in the Southern Front: Imperial Army Aviation's trial to be an
'Air Force' in the Malaya offensive air operation