New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2021. The book delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place, considering international, transnational, and global approaches, and serves as a major jumping off point for further research into the specific fields covered by each of the expert authors. From the Contents: 8. The Crucial Phase of the China Theatre: The War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1938 (Kristin Mulready-Stone); 14. Japanese Leadership in the Second World War (Richard B. Frank); 18. Japanese Society at War: History and Memory (Philip Seaton).