In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army

by Edward J. Drea

Book Overview

Japan's war in Asia and the Pacific from 1937 to 1945 continues to be a subject of great interest, yet the wartime Japanese army remains little understood outside Japan. Most published accounts rely on English-language works written in the 1950s and 1960s. The Japanese-language sources have remained relatively inaccessible to Western scholars in part because of the difficulty of the language, a difficulty that Edward J. Drea, who reads Japanese, surmounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803266383
• ISBN13: 9780803266384
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"