The Imperial Japanese Army Volume 2: Conquest and Occupation 1941 to 1945

The army that carved out Japan’s land empire during World War 2 is examined in depth in two volumes. Drawn from period and modern Japanese and American sources the Imperial Army’s corps are arranged as they were deployed in the field, each with its history and order of battle. A chapter covering the divisions and brigades deployed under them follows. Next, an index of individual units arranged by code number, is provided to make searching the book easy. Over 6.000 units are identified and represented in the two volumes. Today the Japanese Army remains mysterious, in part because it was secretive by nature. These books are wide ranging and informative, but of special interest is the ability to draw back the curtain on one of the Imperial Japanese Army’s most coveted secrets, the intelligence code name and number camouflage it called Tsushogo. The Imperial Japanese Army Volume 2, Conquest and Occupation 1941 to 1945 visits the battlefields and Japanese occupied territories throughout Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 2 reveals the army’s history and organization in the southeast and central Pacific beginning with Imperial General Headquarters and continuing through the Southern Expeditionary Army to the China Expeditionary Army and China’s then border with Manchuria. This is an illuminating reference based on original sources no student of the history of World War 2 in Asia and the Pacific will want to be without.