En tant qu'érudit des relations extérieures des États-Unis au XXe siècle, le travail de Waldo H. Heinrichs explore en profondeur les complexités des événements et des décisions historiques qui ont façonné la dynamique internationale. Sa formation académique lui a fourni une base solide pour une analyse approfondie des forces en jeu durant une ère charnière. Il s'est concentré sur des moments et des choix clés qui ont eu un impact durable sur les affaires mondiales. Ses écrits offrent aux lecteurs un aperçu pénétrant de la nature complexe des processus historiques et de leurs conséquences pour le monde moderne.
Publishing on 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in September 1945, Unconditional not only offers a narrative of the Japanese surrender in its historical moment, but reveals how the policy underlying it poisoned American postwar politics and warped our understanding of World War II for decades.
In this history of the last year of the war in the Pacific, award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio examine all the issues facing the Allies in their fight against the Japanese, and whether unconditional surrender was inevitable.
"Focuses on the distinct personalities of the Pollaiuolo brothers, among the greatest figures of the fifteenth-century Florentine art scene. A thorough review of their works as well as of documents and scholarly literature provides the reader with a new, more carefully defined assessment of Antonio, who used a full range of techniques to express his boundless creativity, and of Piero, a painter of great elegance, who was highly sensitive to the art of the Low Countries"--Jacket.
Marc Gallicchio expertly examines the diplomatic, military, and economic struggles in which the United States, China, and the Soviet Union were pitted in the immediate aftermath of victory over Japan. The Allied victory was but a prelude to an American search for a lasting peace across Asia, stretching from Korea to Vietnam and out to the Pacific atolls.