How did Japan and the United States end up at waron December 7, 1941? What American decisions mighthave provoked the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor?In this classic study of the run up to World War II, Utleyexamines the ways domestic politics shaped America'sresponse to Japanese moves in the Pacific.

Product Description: A series of essays by Waldo Heinrichs regarding the United States and the road it paved to war. The following essays are included: Looking Back: Personal Narrative and the Writing of History; Bureaucracy and Professionalism in the Development of American Career Diplomacy; 1931-1937; The Uses of Diplomacy, 1939; The Politics of Force, 1940; The Role of the United States Navy; President Franklin D...read more

Traces the history of the Tennessee, an American battleship first commissioned in 1920, and recounts its role in the Pacific during World War II