INTELLIGENCE AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN by Richard J. Aldrich ( 9780521066198 )

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Title:

INTELLIGENCE AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN
BRITAIN, AMERICA AND THE POLITICS OF SECRET SERVICE

By:

Richard J. Aldrich

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0521066190

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 February, 2008

Pages:

528

Description:

This book explores the politics of the British and American secret service during the Far Eastern War.

Synopsis:

Intelligence and the War against Japan offers a comprehensive scholarly history of the development of the British secret service and its relations with its American intelligence counterparts during the war against Japan. Richard J. Aldrich makes extensive use of recently declassified files in order to examine the politics of secret service during the Far Eastern War, analysing the development of organizations such as Bletchley Park, the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Asia. He argues that, from the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Allies focused increasingly on each other's future ambitions, rather than the common enemy. Central to this theme are Churchill, Roosevelt and their rivalry over the future of empire in Asia. Richard J. Aldrich's cogent, fluent analysis of the role of intelligence in Far Eastern developments is a thorough and penetrating account of this latter-day 'Great Game'.

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24 b/w illus. 6 maps

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Cambridge University Press

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