Tojo
by:
Alvin D. Coox (author)
General Hideki Tojo, the “last shogun” – outside Japan, and among many native worshippers of the glorious past, he still retains his World War II image as a strutting Asiatic Hitler. Yet his reign as a virtual dictator and his fall from power did not seriously affect the course of Japanese...
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General Hideki Tojo, the “last shogun” – outside Japan, and among many native worshippers of the glorious past, he still retains his World War II image as a strutting Asiatic Hitler. Yet his reign as a virtual dictator and his fall from power did not seriously affect the course of Japanese militarism. Here is a detailed biography of the man who rose to fame during the Manchurian and China campaigns that set the stage for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345242921 (0345242920)
Publish date: 1975
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
During the four years that the United States participated in the Second World War, three figures came to personify for the American public the enemy nations that comprised the Axis powers. Two of them, the German dictator Adolf Hitler and the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, were understandable choi...