British Intelligence And The Japanese Challenge In Asia, 1914-1941; Author: Best, Antony; Author: Best, Anthony; Hardback; Book

Author: Best, Antony; Author: Best, Anthony
Studies in Military and Strategic History; Hardback; Book; Tables, Figures, Graphs, Maps, Notes, Bibliography
288 pages
Published: July 2002
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 0333945514

This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Usingmany previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book showshow this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.Using previously classified records, this is a full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War.