Christopher Thorne

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Christopher Thorne was a British historian, who specialised in studying the Pacific War.

[edit] Biography

Christopher Thorne was born in 1934 and studied history at the University of Oxford. He was for a time Head of Further Education for BBC Radio, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1968, where he subsequently became Professor of International Relations.^[1]

[edit] Published works

• The Approach of War, 1938-1939 (London: Macmillan, 1967)
• The Limits of Foreign Policy: The West, The League, and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1933 (New York, 1972)
• Allies of a Kind: the United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)
• The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)
• Border Crossings: Studies in International History (New York, 1988)
• Between the Seas: A Quiet Walk through Crete (London, 1992)

[edit] References

1. ^ Minear, Richard (1987). "The Issue: What is the Issue?". Reviews in American History 15 (2): 314. doi:10.2307/2702186.