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  • Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s

    From Isolation to Integration

    Edited by Makoto Iokibe, Caroline Rose, Junko Tomaru, John Weste ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged, and when Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today. It examines the process of Japan's attempts to rehabilitate itself and reintegrate into a changing world, and the degree of success ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Korean War: History in an Hour

    by Andrew Mulholland ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the Pacific conflicts of the Second World War, it was also a battle of ideologies ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Red Sun Rising

    Japan, China and the West: 1894-1941

    by Nick Shepley ...
    Series Book 5 - Explaining History
    In the second half of the 19th Century, Japan awoke from centuries of isolation to be a surprising and warlike challenge to European power in Asia. This ebook charts the rise of Japan's power and her dominion over China. It also explores how Japan came to challenge European nations convinced of their own invincibility in the east, culminating in the attack on the USA at Pearl Harbour. ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Victoria to Vladivostok

    Canadas Siberian Expedition, 1917-19

    by Benjamin Isitt ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History Series
    This groundbreaking book brings to life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. Combining military and labour history with the social history of BC, Quebec, and Russia, Benjamin Isitt examines how the Siberian Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian society at a time ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922

    'A Great Disobedience Against the People'

    by Paul E. Dunscomb ...
    Series series Studies of Modern Japan
    The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new "world situation" left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the families of servicemen in small garrison towns, the intervention was perceived as a test of how Japan ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • By More Than Providence

    Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783

    by Michael Green ...
    Series series A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
    Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Access to History for the IB Diploma: The move to global war

    by Kenneth A Dailey ...
    A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 3: The Move to Global WarThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level, helping students to develop their knowledge and analytical skills.Provides:- Reliable, clear and in-depth content from topic experts- Analysis of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Japanese Empire

    Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–5) and the Russo ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • World War 2 In Review: A Primer

    by Merriam Press ...
    Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series March 2025 Revised eBook Edition This first issue of World War 2 in Review is basically a primer on World War II, and is not meant to be an in-depth accounting. Many thousands of books and uncountable articles have been written over the years and the full history of the war has still not been covered, nor will it ever be. World War 2 in Review will cover ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Empires at War

    A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II

    by Dr Francis Pike ...
    Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. "Empires at War" gives a dramatic narrative account of how this 'Modern Asia' came into being. Taking the bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 as its starting point, Francis Pike chronicles the ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Canada: the Case for Staying out of Other People’S Wars

    by William S. Geimer ...
    Canada did not come of age at Vimy, and in all of Canadas wars both soldiers and civilians have died in vain. So why do people continue to support war in general, despite its poor record of benefits? And why, in particular, does Canada involve herself in other peoples wars? Why does Canada, never under any realistic threat of invasion, continue to fight? In Canada: The Case for Staying Out of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD