American shogun : General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito and the drama of modern Japan
2006, First Edition. Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #273783
Physical description; 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Summary; "In the years and months leading up to Pearl Harbor, Japan was becoming the most industrialized state in Asia, as well as the repository of a martial heritage that fueled imperial ambitions of conquest and hegemony. Across the Pacific, the United States was emerging from the depression and again growing into its role as a global power. Today's partnership between modern Japan - now Asia's most well-developed. Subjects; MacArthur, Douglas, -- 1880-1964. Hirohito, -- Emperor of Japan, -- 1901-1989. United States. -- Army -- Biography.
Price: €9.95