Danny Orbach Curse on this country

the rebellious army of imperial Japan

"In Curse on This Country, Danny Orbach explains the culture of rebellion in the Japanese armed forces. It was a culture created by a series of seemingly innocent decisions, each reasonable in its own right, which led to a gradual weakening of Japanese government control over its army and navy. The consequences were dire, as the armed forces dragged the government into more and more of China across the 1930s--a culture of rebellion that made the Pacific War possible. Orbach argues that brazen defiance,...

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Engels | 367 pagina's | Cornell University Press, Ithaca, London | 2017

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