Rising Sun Victorious: An Alternate History of the Pacific War

401 Pages·2007·6.23 MB·English

by  Peter G. Tsouras

RISING SUN VICTORIOUS
Copyright © 1995 by Peter Tsouras

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Contents
Contributors
Introduction

1. Hokushin

The Second Russo-Japanese War
Peter G. Tsouras

2. Be Careful What You Wish For

The Plan Orange Disaster
Wade G. Dudley

3. Pearl Harbor

Irredeemable Defeat
Frank R. Shirer
4. Coral and Purple

The Lost Advantage
James R. Arnold
5. Nagumo's Luck

The Battles of Midway and California
Forrest R. Lindsey
6. Samurai Down Under

The Japanese Invasion of Australia
John H. Gill
7. The Japanese Raj

The Conquest of India
David C. Isby

8. Guadalcanal

The Broken Shoestring
John D. Burtt

9. There Are Such Things as Miracles

Halsey and Kurita at Leyte Gulf
Christopher J. Anderson

10. Victory Rides the Divine Wind

The Kamikaze and the Invasion of Kyushu
D. M. Giangreco
Maps
1. Japanese and Soviet Border Fortifications,
Eastern Manchuria and Maritime Province, 1941
2. Japanese Attack in Mo River Area, Soviet Maritime Province,
August 7, 1941
3. The Failure of War Plan Orange: Key Engagements
4. Oahu and Environs: Lines of Japanese Attack
5. The Main Targets: Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field
6. Coral Sea: Theater of Operations, May 1942
7. Battle of the Coral Sea
8. Japanese Naval Attacks, October 8-10, 1942
9. Australia: Ground Force Dispositions, May 1942
10. Operational Situation in Northeastern Australia, October
1942
11. Japanese Invasion and Occupation of India
12. Japanese Offensive at Guadalcanal: Disposition of Forces,
October 7–8, 1942
13. Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 2305, October 13, 1942
14. Sho-1: Japan's Last Chance
15. Provisional Layout of Fighter Defense
All maps by John Richards, except maps 9 and 10 by John H.
Gill, and map 15 (CINCPAC).
Contributors
CHRISTOPHER J. ANDERSON is a
lifelong student of World War II and the associate editor of

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and World War

II magazine. He is the author of several volumes in Greenhill

Books' series GI.: A Photographic History of the American

Soldier and is working on a history of the 327/401st Glider
Regiment.
JAMES R. ARNOLD is a professional writer who specializes in
military history. He has published over twenty books roughly
divided into three major topic areas: the Napoleonic era; the
American Civil War; and the modern period. His two most

recent books are a Napoleonic campaign study, Marengo and

Hohenlinden: Napoleon's Rise to Power and Jeff Davis's Own:

Cavalry, Comanche's, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier. He
has also contributed numerous essays to military journals,

including the British Journal of the Society for Army Historical

Research and the American journals Army History, Army

Magazine, and Navy History. His chapter in this book reflects
his interest in the influence of intelligence and espionage upon
military events.

JOHN D. BURTT is the editor of Paper Wars Magazine, an
independent review journal devoted to war games. In his day
job persona he is an advisory nuclear engineer consulting for
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. However, his real
love is military history. A former marine sergeant and a veteran
of Vietnam, he holds a master's degree in military history and
is pursuing a Ph.D. in the same field. He has written for

Command Magazine, Strategy & Tactics, and The Wargamer,

and was the original editor of Counter Attack magazine.
WADE G. DUDLEY returned to academia after almost two
decades with Procter & Gamble to earn a master's degree in
maritime history and nautical archaeology from East Carolina
University in 1997 and a doctorate in history from the
University of Alabama in 1999. He contributed “Drake at

Cadiz” to Sarpedon's Great Raids in History, while a

monograph, A Comparative Evaluation of Blockades in the Late

Age of Sail, and a book, Without Some Risk: A Reassessment of

the British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815, are due
to be published shortly. He is employed as a visiting assistant
professor of history at East Carolina University in Greenville,
North Carolina and is currently working on a history of naval
blockades and a novel about privateers during the War of 1812.
D. M. GIANGRECO is an editor for the U.S. Army's professional

journal, Military Review. He has lectured widely on U.S.
national security matters and has written six books on military

and political subjects, including Dear Harry . . . Truman's
Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration Through

Correspondence with “Everyday Americans” and War in Korea.
He has also written articles for many U.S. and international
publications, including “Casualty Projections for the U.S.
Invasion of Japan: 1945-1946” and “The Truth About
Kamikazes,” and on such topics as the Falkland Islands'
sovereignty question, decentralization of the Soviet air force
command and control structure, Persian Gulf pipeline
construction, and the human interface with rapidly changing
technologies.

JOHN H. GILL is the author of With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon

and His German Allies in the 1809 Campaign and the editor of

A Soldier for Napoleon, providing commentary on the letters
and diaries of a Bavarian infantry lieutenant during the
Napoleonic Wars. In addition to numerous articles and papers