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Title: Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook ISBN: 1-56584-039-9 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential book for any fan of World War II
Comment: The authors do an outstanding job of gathering accounts from a variety of Japanese survivors. The topics range from the conflict in China to the dropping of the atomic bombs. The book allows the reader to understand the reasonings behind specific actions by soldiers and the mindset of both civilians and soldiers throughout the war. Reading chapter 15, "Special Attack," was truly frightening. For anyone who wanted to know why the Japanese Kamikaze pilots felt they should give their lives for their country, then this is a chapter that must be read. Overall, an excellent book that needs to be read for those interested in this vast topic.
Rating: 5
Summary: AN INSIDE LOOK AT JAPAN DURING WORLD WAR II
Comment: For those who are interested in what life was like for the Japanese people during World War II this is the book to read. The book contains a series of interviews with locals who survived the war and also with military personnel, even those who participated in atrocities against the Americans and Chinese. The book starts out slow moving, but it then becomes hard to put down. It is an excellent baseline compilation; in fact you see parts of this book quoted in other significant commentaries of the Pacific War. Some parts of the book will enlighten you and possibly make you feel terribly empathetic and sorrowful; other parts will dismay and disturb you. But, it you are a serious student of the war, this is MUST READING and a serious and significant contribution to Pacific War literature.
Rating: 3
Summary: We forget Japanese cruelty toward others.
Comment: I was a kid in China during World War 2. (I was born in 1935. The brutal Japanese invasion of China began in 1937.) I know it's "incorrect" of me, but I find it hard to sympathize with the Japanese or with those who sympathize with the Japanese. Yes, they suffered, as is clearly shown in this book, but what about the horrendous suffering they inflicted on others?
I still remember vividly the day in 1945 when the news came thru the radio that America had invented a bomb, only the size of a man's fist (so the story went), which was so powerful that just one of these bombs can wipe out an entire city, and America had just dropped one on a Japanese city! I still remember the wild rejoicing. We all assumed that America, the country of miracles, would make hundreds of these bombs and drop them all over Japan and wipe that country off the face of the earth.
To this day, every August 6th, I celebrate Hiroshima Day.
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Title: War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower ISBN: 0394751728 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov, Cmer Bartov ISBN: 0195079035 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: World War II: A Short History, Fourth Edition by Michael J. Lyons ISBN: 0130977691 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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Title: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge, Paul Fussell ISBN: 0195067142 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Home Front U.S.A.: America during World War II by Allan M. Winkler ISBN: 0882959832 Publisher: Harlan Davidson Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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