The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley Paperback Book

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Author: James Bradley

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: Nov 2010

Genre: History - United States - 20th Century

Retail Price: $17.99

Pages: 387

Synopsis

On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him.

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his daughter Alice, and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea with the intent of forging an agreement to divide up Asia. This clandestine pact lit the fuse that would-decades later-result in a number of devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, and the communist revolution in China.

In 2005, James Bradley retraced that epic voyage and discovered the remarkable truth about America's vast imperial past. Full of fascinating characters brought brilliantly to life, The Imperial Cruise will powerfully revise the way we understand U.S. history.

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BookLender review by Albert on 2012-12-04 09:56:09

I was absolutely astounded by the subject matter of this book! I had expected it to be a discussion of the cruise itself and honestly wasnt that thrilled at the prospect of reading it.Instead, the book shocked me and presented me with new American History material that I was frankly unaware of. This book is a mustread for every student and scholar of 19th and 20th Century American and Asian History.I came away angry at the sanitized propaganda that all of us have been fed as students of American History at all levels! It is amazing to me that we are opening Soviet archives and discovering new material about the Nazis and the Holocaust almost every day and each new discovery is hailed as a watershed event.Meanwhile a vast amount of American History, much of it in plain sight, is overlooked or ignored presumably because we might be labelled as UnAmerican for speaking the truth. READ THIS BOOK!

BookLender review by Betty C. on 2011-08-07 14:10:09

Enjoyed other books by this author, but this tome was too much of a different political flavor than prior books.