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Peattie, Mark Robert was born on May 3, 1930 in Nice, France. Son of Donald Culross and Louise (Redfield) Peattie.
(Serving as a sequel to Kaigun, the prize-winning study of...)
Serving as a sequel to Kaigun, the prize-winning study of the surface and sub-surface forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy, this work illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific War. It provides the most detailed account yet available in English of Japan's naval air campaign over China from 1937 to 1941 and concludes with a revealing chapter on the utter destruction of Japanese naval air power by 1944, in the process explaining its essential strengths and weaknesses.Author Mark Peattie traces the development of the Navy's land-based air power as well as the evolution of its carrier forces. He also treats all the salient aspects of the naval air service: training, personnel, tactics, doctrine, technology, and industrial base. In doing so, he combines data found in previous handbooks with important new information derived from Japanese language sources. The book's appendixes include biographic summaries of important personnel mentioned in the text, detailed drawings and data on Japanese carriers and naval aircraft, and information on Japanese naval air bases and land-based air groups as of 7 December 1941.
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(This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning w...)
This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific war. In the process of explaining the navy s essential strengths and weaknesses, the book provides the most detailed account available in English of Japan s naval air campaign over China from 1937 to 1941. A final chapter analyzes the utter destruction of Japanese naval air power by 1944.
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(One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is th...)
One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable study of the navy's dizzying development, tactical triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and attention to detail, this important new history explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the navy's thinking about naval warfare and how to plan for it. Focusing primarily on the much-neglected period between the world wars, two widely esteemed historians persuasively explain how the Japanese failed to prepare properly for the war in the Pacific despite an arguable advantage in capability. Maintaining the highest literary standards and supplemented by a dazzling array of charts, diagrams, drawings, and photographs, this landmark work provides much important information not available in any other English-language source. Consciously avoiding the Eurocentric bias of conventional military scholarship, David Evans and Mark Peattie make a unique contribution to naval historiography that will be prized by serious historians and casual readers alike and that promises to spark debate within the academic community.
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Peattie, Mark Robert was born on May 3, 1930 in Nice, France. Son of Donald Culross and Louise (Redfield) Peattie.
Bachelor, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1951. Master of Arts, Stanford (California) University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1972.
Assistant cultural affairs officer United States Information Service, Phnom Perh, 1955-1957, branch public affairs officer Sendai, Japan, 1958-1960, foreign service language officer Tokyo, 1960-1962, branch public affairs officer Kyoto, 1962-1967. Japan-Korea desk officer United States Information Agency, Washington, 1967-1968. Assistant professor, associate professor Pennsylvania State University, State College, 1972-1973.
Visiting associate professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1982. Associate professor, professor University Massachusetts, Boston, 1982-1992. Professor Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, since 1992.
(Serving as a sequel to Kaigun, the prize-winning study of...)
(One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is th...)
(This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning w...)
Corporal United States Army, 1952-1954.
Married Alice Richmond, June 21, 1955. Children: Victoria Helm, Caroline, David.