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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Tokyo,New York
Kodansha International
1993
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ |
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| Résumé: | 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. |
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