Japan's Imperial Conspiracy
David Bergamini
- New York William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1971
- 1239 p
Part one. Vengeance of war: Rape of Nanking -- A-bomb -- Defeat -- Part two. Land of the sun goddess: Imperial heritage (A.D. 50-1642) -- The coming of Perry (1642-1900) -- Part three. Young caesar: Hirohito's boyhood (1900-1912) -- Crown Prince Hirohito (1912-1921) -- Regent Hirohito (1921-1926) -- Hirohito as emporer (1926-1929) -- Part four. Rubicon Manchuria: Sea power (1929-1930) -- March 1931 -- Seizure of Mukden (1931) -- Dollar swindle (1931-1932) -- Fake war (1932) -- Government by assassination (1932) -- Outcast nation (1932-1933) -- Part five. Discipling the legions: North or south? (1933-1934) -- Organ or god? (1934-1935) -- Purges of 1935 -- February Mutiny (1936) -- Suppression (1936) -- Part six. Triumvir of Asia: Neutralizing Russia (1936-1939) -- Joining the axis (1940) -- Passive resistance (1940-1941) -- Konoye's last chance (1941) -- Pearl Harbor (1941) -- Part seven. Armageddon The strike south (1941-1942) -- Crumbling empire (1942-1944) -- Fall of the homeland (1944-1945).