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British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45 book cover

1st Edition

British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45

Edited By Brian Bond, Kyoichi Tachikawa Copyright 2004
192 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational. The Japanese contributors examine the reasons for their... Read more
1. Britain's Grand Strategy for War against Japan 2. Tojo Hideki as a War Leader 3. The Army Level of Command: General Sir William Slim and the Fourteenth Army in Burma 4. Leadership in Japan's Planning for War against Britain 5. Crisis of Command: Major-General Gordon Bennett and British military effectiveness in the Malayan Campaign, 1941-42 6. General Yamashita and His Style of Leadership: The Malaya/Singapore campaign 7. British Tactical Command and Leadership in the Burma Campaign, 1941-45 8. Japanese War Leadership in the Burma Theatre: The Imphal Operation 9. British Leadership in Air Operations: Malaya and Burma 10. Air Operational Leadership in the Southern Front: Imperial Army Aviation's trial to be an 'Air Force' in the Malaya offensive air operation

Biography

Brian Bond is Emeritus Professor of Military History at King's College London and President of the British Commission for Military History. Festschrift to mark his retirement in 2002, The British General Staff, edited by David French and Brian Holden Reid, was published by Frank Cass and awarded the Templer Prize Medal for Military History. He is author of many books on military history, the most recent being The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History (2002).

Kyoichi Tachikawa is Senior Research Fellow at the Military History Department, National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded an MA from Sophia University in 1990 and a PhD in 1999.

"This excellent work...throws new light on one of the most neglected campaigns of the Second World War, and is an important work for anyone interested in war in Asia or in strategy and leadership." - Albert Nofi, The NYMAS Review
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