<p><span class="deck"> The story of Manjiro, the shipwrecked waif; of the kindly captain from Fairhaven; and of how Japan, hidden away from the world, learned strange news of other lands</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Japan’s feudal, shut-in history suddenly came to an end when the bluff American commodore dropped anchor in Tokyo Bay</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Sixteen years before Pearl Harbor an English naval expert uncannily prophesied in detail the war in the Pacific. Now comes evidence that the Japanese heeded his theories—but not his warnings</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> During three harrowing years as a prisoner of the Japanese, an American woman secretly kept an extraordinary journal of suffering, hope, ingenuity, and human endurance</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">She was the last major American warship sunk during World War II, and her sinking was the single worst open-sea disaster in our naval history. How could it have happened?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In a conflict that saw saturation-bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">These World War II airmen had one of the most dangerous missions of all, piloting unarmed cargo planes over the Hump - the high and treacherous Himalayas.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Early in the century, a young American accurately predicted Japan’s imperialism and China’s and Russia’s rise. Then, he set out to become China’s soldier-leader.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">How Franklin Roosevelt’s Secretary of Agriculture sent an eccentric Russian mystic on a sensitive mission to Asia and thereby created diplomatic havoc, personal humiliation, and embarrassment for the administration.</span></p>
<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Truman was Commander in Chief of the American armed forces, and he had a duty to the men under his command that simply was not shared by those sitting in moral judgment decades later.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck">As a ten-year-old boy, the author had a role to play in bringing Douglas MacArthur’s vision of democracy to a shattered Japan.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">An overheard remark sent the author off on a years-long quest to discover the truth about a man whose power to inspire both rage and reverence has only grown after his death.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Donald Kagan, a historian of the ancient world believes that, in every era, people have reacted to the demands of waging war in surprisingly similar ways, and that, to protect our national interests today, Americans must understand the choices that soldiers and statesmen made hundreds and even thousands of years ago.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Stationed near Nagasaki at the close of the war, a young photographer ventured into the devastated city and stayed for months.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Was he the Beast of Bataan, or was his true war crime defeating Douglas MacArthur in Manila and on Corregidor? Here is a troubling look at the problems of military "justice."</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A young man from Queens jumps into the thick of World War II intelligence activities by translating secret Japanese messages</span></p>
<p>A preeminent author recalls his experience as one of America's first combat historians, among a handful of men who accompanied soldiers into the bloodiest battles to write history as it was being made.</p>
<p>The “divine wind” began in October 1944 as the Japanese defended against MacArthur’s assault on the Philippines. The Americans who witnessed these first attacks were horrified and shaken, but it was only the beginning.</p>
<p>The U.S. government managed to hide the magnitude of what happened in Hiroshima until John Hersey’s story appeared in the <em>New Yorker</em>, driving home the truth about America’s new mega-weapon.</p>
<p>In the spring of 1945, American bombing raids destroyed much of Tokyo and dozens of other Japanese cities, killing at least 200,000 people, without forcing a surrender.</p>
<p>When judging the morality of the use of atomic weapons in World War II, observers typically focus on Japanese deaths, while ignoring the far-larger number of non-Japanese casualties.</p>
<p>American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.</p>
<p>As defeat became inevitable in the summer of 1945, Japan's government and the Allies could not agree on surrender terms, especially regarding the future of Emperor Hirohito and his throne. </p>
