What are the magnum opuses of the ideologies of the major players in World War II...

What are the magnum opuses of the ideologies of the major players in World War II? I know there's Mein Kampfy Chair for the Germans and the Communist Manifesto for the Russians, but what are the equivalents for Imperial Japan, the US/Britain, and China?

The US, Britain and China were dragged into this shit. You could say the Little Red Book for China, I guess. Dunno about Japan.

China - The Little Red Book
USA - Atlas Shrugged
England - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Imperial Japan - Boku no Piko

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pls no /a/ memes, Japan is the one I'm most curious about

iirc, each Japanese soldier had a specific, non-military manual, book issued to them. Can't remember what it was.

bump because interesting thread.

>WW2
>Little Red Book

>China - The Little Red Book
Wont happen until the cultural revolution.

The Magnum Opus in China during WWII was, hands down, "On Guerilla War." Basically it outlined what is called "The People's War" Strategy non-European Communists would be using in their rebellions across the world.

That said, Mao Zedong was NOT the mastermind behind the ideas in the book. It was only his face there after he won leadership of the CCP in the Yunnan conference. The real ideas on the book was from the military thinking of Generals Peng Dehuai and Zhu De, two of modern Chinese history's best generals.

Churchill's memoirs for england desu

For America it would probably be the writings of Alfred Thayer Mahan. The Hokushin-ron and Nanshin-ron articles on Wikipedia explain some of the origins of Japanese thinking during this time period. The Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere stuff seems to have been a bit more of an afterthought.

>In the 1920s and 1930s, the "Southern Expansion Doctrine" gradually came to be formalized, largely through the efforts of the Imperial Japanese Navy's "South Strike Group", a strategic think tank based out of the Taihoku Imperial University in Taiwan. Many professors at the university were either active or ex-Navy officers, with direct experience in the territories in question. The University published numerous reports promoting the advantages of investment and settlement in the territories under Navy control.

The Anti-London Treaty Faction (han-johaku ha) of the Treaty Faction within the Japanese Navy set up a “Study Committee for Policies towards the South Seas” (Tai Nan-yo Hosaku Kenkyu-kai) to explore military and economic expansion strategies, and cooperated with the Ministry of Colonial Affairs (Takumu-sho) to emphasize the military role of Taiwan and Micronesia as advanced bases for further southern expansion.

>During 1920 the Foreign Ministry convened the Nan-yo Boeki Kaigi (South Seas Trade Conference), to promote South Seas commerce and published in 1928 Boeki, Kigyo oyobi imin yori mitaru Nan'yo (The South Seas in view of Trade and emigration). The term Nan-yo kokusaku (National Policy towards the South Seas) first appeared.

fucking kek

>Mao's Little Red Book

That shit didn't happen until Mao was firmly in power, in the 1960s and during the course of the Cultural Revolution. Besides, it's in no way a magnus opus: it is merely a collection of little sayings and 'thoughts' from Mao. Hardly what influenced him.

>Atlas Shrugged

It's just a compilation of quotes, many of which were made during the war years. Faggot.

>Communist Manifesto for the Russians
Didn't Lenin write some books of his own?

Which particular works would you recommend from Mahan?

>Which particular works would you recommend from Mahan
None. They're all bad. The Influence of Sea Power on History is the book that had the most influence on sea power in history, though.

>USA - Atlas Shrugged
At first I wanted to laugh but then I thought,"USA culture" is really not monolithic, it's really more like two ideologies tangled up in a marriage that is dysfunctional and love-to-hate but somehow still manages to work really well at the end of the day.

So for inland conservative culture, the only books that I can think of which exceed Atlas Shrugged for influence are "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson or "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek.
For coastal liberal culture, that book is without question "A theory of Justice" by John Rawls.

As for the rest, I'd be interested to learn

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easily above 20 books

What books are essential to understand WW2-era Russia from Lenin?

I read "The Revolutionary Internationals 1864-1943", which gave me a pretty clear understanding of the evolution of socialist/anarchist/trade unionist/communist groups across europe. Its not written by Lenin, nor is it specifically about Russia, but it was a good read.

>just quotes from WW2

Incorrect

When do you think Lenin died?

Imperial Japanese military was split into two factions; strike north and strike south. Evidently, the strike south faction won out after Zhukov bloodied the nose of the IJA as Kalkin Ghol.