Alvin Coox
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- PhD History University of Pennsylvania
- Masters History University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelors History University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alvin David Coox, was an American military historian and author known for his award-winning book, Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia. Coox studied at New York University with a bachelor's degree in accounting and achieved his doctorate in history at Harvard University. He taught at Harvard University in the 1940s and at Johns Hopkins University, before working as an analyst for the United States Air Force after they went to Japan. From 1964 to 1995, he taught at San Diego State University.
Alvin Coox's Published Works
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- Factories of death. (1995) (76)
- Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 (1985) (48)
- Eagle Against the Sun . By Ronald H. Spector. New York: Free Press, 1985. xvi, 566 pp. $24.95. (1989) (32)
- The American Magic. Codes, Ciphers, and the Defeat of Japan.@@@Miracle at Midway. (1985) (28)
- Kōgun : the Japanese army in the Pacific War (1979) (23)
- The garrison state in pre-war Japan and post-war Korea : a comparative analysis of military politics (1978) (22)
- Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941 . By David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xxv, 663 pp. $49.95 (cloth). (1999) (13)
- The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938 (1977) (13)
- Britain and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1939. (1973) (12)
- China and Japan : search for balance since World War I (1979) (12)
- Revolt in Japan: The Young Officers and the February 26, 1936, Incident (1973) (12)
- The Cambridge History of Japan: Continental expansion, 1905–1941 (1989) (9)
- Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. (1994) (6)
- The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895–1945 (1984) (6)
- World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1999) (6)
- The Japanese Navy in World War II (1969) (5)
- Repulsing the Pearl Harbor Revisionists: The State of Present Literature on the Debacle (1986) (5)
- The Battle for Okinawa (1995) (5)
- The Enola Gay and Japan's Struggle to Surrender (1995) (4)
- The Lake Khasan affair of 1938: Overview and lessons (1973) (4)
- The Pacific War (1989) (4)
- Katyn: A Crime Without Parallel (1971) (4)
- Japan the Final Agony (1970) (4)
- L'affaire Lyushkov: Anatomy of a defector (1968) (4)
- Flawed perception and its effect upon operational thinking: The case of the Japanese army, 1937–41 (1990) (4)
- The Anatomy of a Small War. (1978) (3)
- High Command and Field Army: The Kwantung Army and the Nomonhan Incident, 1939 (1969) (2)
- Meiji 1868: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Japan: Akamatsu, Paul: (Translated from the French by Miriam Kochan) New York: Harper & Row, 330 pp., Publication Date: January 3, 1973 (1973) (2)
- Needless Fear: The Compromise of U.S. Plans to Invade Japan in 1945 (2000) (2)
- Japanese Military History: A Guide to the Literature. (1987) (2)
- The Dutch Invasion of England: 1667 (1949) (2)
- john w. dower. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon. 1986. Pp. xii, 399. $22.50 (1988) (2)
- Evidences of Antimilitarism in Prewar and Wartime Japan (1973) (2)
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Death Knell of the Japanese Fleet. (1973) (1)
- The Battle for the Ardennes: Strawson, John: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 212 pp., Publication Date: September 25, 1972 (1972) (1)
- Japanese foreknowledge of the Soviet‐German war, 1941 (1972) (1)
- Salerno to Cassino. United States Army in World War II. The Mediterranean Theater of Operations. (1970) (1)
- The Unfought War: Japan 1941-1942 (1992) (1)
- The lesser of two hells: NKVD general G.S. Lyushkov's defection to Japan, 1938–1945, part II (1998) (1)
- Effects of Attrition on National War Effort: The Japanese Army Experience China, 1937-1938 (1968) (1)
- Soviet Military Policy: A Historical Analysis (1968) (1)
- Americans in Southeast Asia: The Roots of Commitment: Fifield, Russell H.: New York: Thomas Y. Croweil Co., 417 pp., Publication Date: May 7,1973 (1973) (1)
- STEPHEN E. PELZ. Race to Pearl Harbor : The Failure of the Second London Naval Conference and the Onset of World War II. Pp. xi, 268. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. $17.50 (1975) (0)
- Hawaii under the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for Conquest after Pearl Harbor John J. Stephan (1984) (0)
- David Bergamini. Japan's Imperial Conspiracy. New York: William Morrow and Company. 1971. Pp. xxxviii, 1239. $14.95 (1972) (0)
- Japan in Crisis: Essays on Taisho Democracy: Silberman, Bernard S., and H. D. Harootunian, eds.: Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 469 pp., Publication Date: October 17, 1974 (1975) (0)
- Book Review:Twenty Decisive Battles of the World Joseph B. Mitchell, Edward S. Creasy (1965) (0)
- Book Reviews : Soviet Military Policy: A Historical Analysis. By RAYMOND L. GARTHOFF. (New York and Washington: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. Pp. ix, 276. $6.50.) (1968) (0)
- Mac Arthur and Wainwright: Sacrifice of the Philippines. By John Jacob Beck. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974. xix + 302 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) (1975) (0)
- J. N. Westwood. Witnesses of Tsushima. Tokyo: Sophia University, in cooperation with the Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Fla. 1970. Pp. xii, 321. $15.00 (1971) (0)
- The Pearl Harbor Raid Revisited (1994) (0)
- The Japanese image (1966) (0)
- Black Star Over Japan: Rising Forces of Militarism . By Axelbank Albert. New York: Hill a Wang, 1972. xv, 240 pp. Appendix, Further Readings, Index. $7.95. (1973) (0)
- Reilly's Battery. (1970) (0)
- China and Japan: The Search for Balance (1978) (0)
- General Narcisse Chauvineau: False Apostle of Prewar French Military Doctrine (1973) (0)
- Requiem for Battleship Yamato/吉田満,translation and introduction by Richard H.Minear(1985) (1988) (0)
- War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea. By J. Lawton Collins. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1969. Pp. xiii, 416. $8.95.) (1970) (0)
- ANALYSIS OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. PART 3. APPENDIX B. ATOMIC WARFARE (1950) (0)
- Okinawa 1945: Gateway to Japan . By Ian Gow. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday a Company, 1985. 224 pp. Illustrations, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $16.95. (1987) (0)
- Dorothy Borg and Shumpei Okamoto, eds. Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1941. Pp. xv, 801. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. $25.00 (1974) (0)
- Year of the Tiger (1965) (0)
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