TY - BOOK AU - Hasegawa,Tsuyoshi TI - Racing the enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan SN - 9780674022416 (pbk.) : AV - D813.J3 H37 2006 U1 - 940.532452 23 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Armistices KW - Japan KW - Soviet Union KW - United States KW - World politics KW - 1933-1945 KW - Warfare and Defence KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: 2005 N2 - With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story - the US, the Soviet Union, and Japan - Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective ER -