International relations and the origins of the war in Asia and the Pacific war / Michael A. Barnhart -- The second Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 / Thomas Marvin Williamsen -- The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor / Eugene L. Rasor -- Japanese strategy and campaigns in the Pacific war, 1941-1945 / Mark R. Peattie -- American and Allied strategy and campaigns in the Pacific war, 1941-1945 / Jeffrey G. Barlow -- Burma and Southeast Asia, 1941-1945 / Mark P. Parillo -- The air war against Japan and the end of the war in the Pacific / Conrad C. Crane -- Japanese occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Asia / Shigeru Sato -- The domestic impact of war and occupation on Japan / William M. Tsutsui -- European reconquest and neocolonialism in Southeast Asia / Dieu Thi Nguyen -- Prisoners of war and civilian internees: the Asian and Pacific theaters / S.P. MacKenzie -- Science, technology, and weapons development / Benjamin H. Kristy -- Propaganda, public opinion, and censorship during the second World War / Loyd E. Lee -- Unit histories and the experience of combat / Loyd E. Lee -- The war and film in the United States and Britain / Stephen Curley -- Japanese war films / William B. Hauser -- The Holocaust and film / Judith E. Doneson -- The "western" fiction of World War II / M. Paul Holsinger -- Lines (in) formation : anglophone poetry in the second World War / Jonathan W. Bolton -- The war and the visual arts / Brian Foss -- Art music and World War II / Ben Arnold -- Popular culture and World War II / Ruth Elwell -- American Christianity on the home front during the second World War / Gerald L. Sittser -- Christianity outside North America / Richard V. Pierard -- Cultural background to the war / Donald J. Mrozek -- Allied summit diplomacy / Mark A. Stoler -- Planning for the postwar world economy and the United Nations / Georg Schild -- The breakdown of the grand alliance and the origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947 / Lawrence Aronsen -- War crimes, international criminal law, and the postwar trials in Europe and Asia / R. John Pritchard.