Frank Gibney Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Colonel Yahara was the strategist and executor of the entire Japanese defense during the bloody military encounter which lasted from April to July 1945, the last battle in the Pacific Theater during WWII. It was Yahara who proposed a war of attrition, unique in the history of Japanese WWII island defenses and he was the only high-ranking officer to leave Okinawa without committing suicide. In this riveting book, Yahara presents an illuminating portrait of the final anguish of the Janpanese high command. "The most interesting of the 'last battle of the war' books."--The Washington Post

This classic account (1952) of the makers of "New Japan" tells the life stories of a journalist, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and Emperor Hirohito. Frank Gibney was a wartime U.S. Navy intelligence officer who became Time magazine correspondent during the American Occupation of Japan. He went on to be a major interpreter of Japan to Americans and America to Japanese, known as a knowledgeable, genial presence in the PBS series Pacific Century . In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Japan was a poor, broken, and troubled society. Many in both Japan and the West assumed that it would always be so. But Gibney reported on Japan in such telling and readable detail that we can see in this book both the now forgotten atmosphere of that time and the basis for the "Japanese miracle" to follow.