Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

by Richard B. Frank and Richard Frank

Book Overview

In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world's population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism. Japan's onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. From just two nation states with real sovereignty, Thailand and Japan, and two with compromised sovereignty, China and Mongolia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002107
• ISBN13: 9781324002109
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"