War from the West—least expected… WW2 persuasive map—Richard Edes Harrison 1942
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The Physical World to the West [War from the West—Least expected because least understood, the Japanese threat rose to reality against these backdrops]
Richard Edes Harrison, War from the West: The Physical World to the West, Fortune supplement, January 1942. Issued immediately after Pearl Harbor, this striking hemispheric view turns the Pacific from a remote void into America’s western front. Based on a photographed five-foot globe and viewed from high above Tokyo, Harrison abandons familiar north-up/Mercator habits to show great-circle routes, naval bases, air distances and the strategic nearness of San Francisco, Manila, Singapore, Australia and Siberia. The accompanying text explains why Japan’s attack had seemed “least expected”: Americans had misunderstood both Pacific geography and their own slow hardening of opinion, traced in Elmo Roper survey data from Manchuria to the Axis pact. Harrison’s message is blunt: in the air age, geography is strategy for America now.
Size 35 x 57 cm | 14.0 x 22.5 inches
Date Published: January 1942
Type: Vintage colour persuasive map with related text verso
Author: Harrison, Richard Edes
Publication: Fortune Magazine
Condition: Good |
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