{"product_id":"war-from-the-west-least-expected-ww2-persuasive-map-richard-edes-harrison-1942-p-8-006780","title":"War from the West—least expected… WW2 persuasive map—Richard Edes Harrison 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe Physical World to the West [War from the West—Least expected because least understood, the Japanese threat rose to reality against these backdrops]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichard 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52983563256155,"sku":"P-8-006780","price":170.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006780a.jpg?v=1778784365","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/products\/war-from-the-west-least-expected-ww2-persuasive-map-richard-edes-harrison-1942-p-8-006780","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}