In the Ruins of Empire: Battle for Postwar Asia
473 views · Published 9 April 2014 · 51:40 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
Ronald Spector reads from his new book, In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia. It is a sequel to the Prize-winning military historian's earlier book, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan, hailed as the "definitive" one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Spector, who has been a historian at the US Army Center for Military History, also is the author of After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam and At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Conflict in the 20th Century.
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