Three military leaders: Heihachiro Togo, Isoroku Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Yamashita

Japan's military traditional underwent the same transformation at the nineteeth century as the rest of that country's institutions in its rush to modernize and emulate the west. From the victory od Admiral Togo againts the Russian Fleet, to Yamashita's unthinkable land-based conquest...

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1. autor: Hoyt, Edwin P.
Format: Książka
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Wydane: Tokyo,New York Kodansha International 1993
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Streszczenie:Japan's military traditional underwent the same transformation at the nineteeth century as the rest of that country's institutions in its rush to modernize and emulate the west. From the victory od Admiral Togo againts the Russian Fleet, to Yamashita's unthinkable land-based conquest of Singapore, Japanese feats of arms amazed the world.Yet there was a dark side, in the militaristic distortions of bushido that doomed the nation to years of totalitarianism and war.