The Origins of the Grand Alliance: Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor

by William T. Johnsen

On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay, which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, the attack turned American public opinion against Japan, and President Roosevelt dispatched Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to begin conversations with the British admiralty about Japanese aggression in the Far East. While few Americans remember the Panay Incident, it established...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813168333
• ISBN13: 9780813168333
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up