Bücher von Edwin P. Hoyt

Vice-admiral Matome Ugaki embarked upon a kamikaze mission when Emperor Hirohito surrendered Japan in August 1945. His plane was shot down by US nightfighters but he left a wartime diary which has enabled Hoyt to build a picture of an Imperial Navy that began in strength and was destroyed.

An account of the battle for Stalingrad, a World War II conflict that cost over three million lives. The siege was a hinge upon which the course of history rested. Had the Red Army fallen, the Nazis would have occupied Russia. If the Germans had given way, Stalin would have painted Europe red.

Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully examines the issues behind the war in the Pacific and sheds new light on the "China Question," the rape of Hong Kong, the Bataan Death March, and the murder camps of the East Indies.

Based on oral testimony from field soldiers, both new recruits and veterans, The GI's War puts the reader on the frontlines and captures in unsparing detail the confusion, monotony, terror and glory of going to war.

Hoyt's biography, taking advantage of recent posthumous revelations of a Japanese foreign service diplomat, portrays Hirohito as a man of peace held captive by his role in Japanese society and government .

A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy-an assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic thinking between the Americans and the British.