Steven Casey (Professor of Inte Professor of International History

The War Beat, Pacific

The American Media at War Against Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The War Beat, Pacific is the first book to use a wealth of previously untapped documents to provide a comprehensive account of the reporting of the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor and Bataan, through Midway and Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, Leyte and Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780190053635
• ISBN-10: 0190053631
• Artikelnr.: 60191485

Autorenporträt

Steven Casey is Professor in International History at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and the War against Nazi Germany (OUP, 2001); Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics and Public Opinion (OUP, 2008); When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Confronted Combat Casualties (OUP, 2014); and The War Beat Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany (OUP, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Shrouded War
Chapter 1. The Paradox of Pearl Harbor
Chapter 2. Fiasco in the Philippines
Chapter 3. Censorship at Sea
Chapter 4. The New Guinea Gang
Chapter 5. The Shroud Slips: Guadalcanal
Part Two: Lifting the Veil
Chapter 6. Atrocities
Chapter 7. Dress Rehearsal in New Guinea
Chapter 8. Bloody Battles in the Central Pacific
Chapter 9. The Burma Backwater
Part Three: Vengeance
Chapter 10. The Return
Chapter 11. Death in the Pacific
Chapter 12. Endgame
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index