Brian Bond and Kyoichi Tachikawa (Editors). British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45.Brian Bond Brian James Bond (born 17 April 1936 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire) is a distinguished British military historian and professor emeritus of military history at King's College London. and Kyoichi Tachikawa (Editors). British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45, Frank Cass, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0714656593, 192 pages, 65.00 [pounds sterling] Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise re·ap·praise tr.v. re·ap·praised, re·ap·prais·ing, re·ap·prais·es To make a fresh appraisal or evaluation of. reappraise Verb [-praising, -praised their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns The Burma Campaign was a campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II. It was fought primarily between British Empire, Chinese and American forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, the Burmese Independence Army and the Indian National Army. . This leadership is analysed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational. The Japanese contributors examine the reasons for their forces, brilliant advances in 1941-42, whereas the British writers have to account for the disastrous defeat, characterized char·ac·ter·ize tr.v. character·ized, character·iz·ing, character·iz·es 1. To describe the qualities or peculiarities of: characterized the warden as ruthless. 2. by the poor leadership of senior commanders such as Bennett and Percival. Between 1943 and 1945, the tables were turned dramatically, so the failure of Japanese command decisions then comes under critical scrutiny and the British have to explain how defeat was transformed into victory. |
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