Series preface Introduction Khalkhin-Gol: the forgotten war Planning for an unpredictable war British intelligence assessments and the war against Japan, 1937-45 The evolution of fleet tactical doctrine in the US Navy, 1922-1941 In support of the battle line: gunnery's influence on the development of carrier aviation in the US Navy Major-General George Grunert, WPO-3, and the Philippine Army, 1940-1941 Army, air force and navy air force Japanese aviation and the opening phase of the war in the Far East Operation Dovetail: bungled Guadalcanal rehearsal, July 1942 Walter Krueger, Douglas MacArthur and the Pacific war: the Wadke-Sarmi campaign as a case study Japanese defense of Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 December 1944-4 September 1945 No quarter: the Pacific battlefield Language at war: US Marine Corps Japanese language officers in the Pacific war Burma memoirs and the reality of war A paper tiger: the Indian National Army in battle, 1944-1945 Breaking the cycle of Iwo Jima mythology: a strategic study of Operation Detachment

Diary of first lieutenant Sugihara Kinryu Iwo Jima, January-February 1945 War's end on Okinawa: in search of Captain Robert Fowler Compelling Japan's surrender without the A-bomb, Soviet entry, or invasion: reconsidering the US bombing survey's early-surrender conclusions Shaping the past battlefield, 'for the future': the United States strategic bombing survey's evaluation of the American air war against Japan Truman and the A-bomb: targeting noncombatants, using the bomb and his defending the 'decision' Name index Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.