{"product_id":"9780160938894","title":"The Post-Arcadia Conference: January-May 1942","description":"Only nine days after the Arcadia Conference (also known as the First Washington Conference) was held in Washington, DC, the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS) again convened for a series of twenty meetings between January 23 and May 19, 1942. All of these meetings were held in Washington, DC.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During these meetings, the CCS focused on the situation in the Southwest Pacific area known as the American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) area, which included Burma; support of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek; and the possibility of a German attack on England. The use of US Army and Navy aviation against Japan was also discussed. In addition to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, some of these CCS meetings were attended by members of Allied and Commonwealth countries when issues relating to their national interests were considered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Post-Arcadia Conference was the second in a series of high-level conferences held in Washington, DC; Casablanca; Quebec; Cairo; Tehran; Malta; Yalta; and Potsdam to formulate the Allied grand strategy. At the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was also in attendance and played an important role.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ISBN: 9780160938900 (Mobi) and ISBN: 9780160938917 (PDF) are companion digital formats to this product and are also available for free download.    The entire World War II Inter-Allied Conferences series consists of these products available for free download:\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArcadia Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Washington, DC), December 24, 1941–January 14, 1942: ISBN 9780160938870 (Mobi); ISBN 9780160938863 (ePub); ISBN 9780160938887 (PDF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCasablanca Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Morocco), January 14–24, 1943: ISBN 9780160938931 (Mobi);\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780160938924 (ePub); ISBN 9780160938948 (PDF)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrident Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Washington, DC), May 12–25, 1943: ISBN 9780160938795 (Mobi);\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780160938788 (ePub); ISBN 9780160938801 (PDF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuadrant Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Quebec City, Canada), August 14–24, 1943: ISBN 9780160938825 (Mobi);\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780160938818 (ePub); ISBN 9780160938832 (PDF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSextant Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Cairo, Egypt), Eureka Conference (Tehran, Iran), and the Second Cairo Conference (Egypt), November 22–December 7, 1943: ISBN 9780160938856 (Mobi); ISBN 9780160938849 (ePub);\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780160939266 (PDF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOctagon Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Quebec City, Canada), September 12–16, 1944: ISBN 9780160939259 (Mobi);\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780160939273 (ePub); ISBN 9780160939280 (PDF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgonaut Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Malta and Yalta, Soviet Union), January 30–February 11, 1945:\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780160939303 (Mobi); ISBN 9780160939297 (ePub); ISBN 9780160939242 (PDF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerminal Conference\u003c\/b\u003e (Potsdam, Germany), July 17–August 2, 1945: ISBN 978-0-16-093923-5 (Mobi);\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780160939310 (ePub); ISBN 9780160939327 (PDF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"United States Dept. of Defense","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106594832624,"sku":"9780160938894","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780160938894_p0.jpg?v=1763658246","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780160938894","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}