The barrier and the javelin : Japanese and Allied Pacific strategies, February to June 1942
H. P. Willmott (Author)
The second part of H. P. Willmott’s classic three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring long-term security and resolving her immediate problems of access to raw materials and of an unwinnable war in China.
Print Book, English, ©1983
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., ©1983
Government publications United States
xvii, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780870210921, 9781591149491, 0870210920, 1591149495
9828511
Pt. I: The Japanese situation
The barrier or . .
. . . The javelin
Moryalmi: the schlieffen plan of the Pacific war
Pt. II: The allied situation
The allies and the SouthWest Pacific
Operation magic and the allied deployment for the battle of the Coral Sea
Pt. III: The battle of the Coral Sea
The preliminaries to battle
The carrier contacts
The reckoning and the withdrawals
Pt. IV: The battle of Midway
Operation magic and the American deployment for the battle of Midway
Approach to contact
Contact
Miscalculations
Mortal wounds
Three against one
Dusk and dust
The final exchanges
Pt. V: Final perspectives
Final perspectives
Second vol. of a trilogy that began with Empires in the balance
Includes indexes