Japan at War: An Oral History by
Theodore F. Cook
Amazing Book Showing The Full Spectrum Of The Japanese Experience In Wwii
This groundbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever the
remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a
sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the
Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during
the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first
glimpses of how this centurys most violent conflict affected the lives of the
Japanese population. Japan At War is a monumental work of history --one
to which Americans and Japanese will turn for decades to come.
This book should be read alongside The Good War, by Studs Terkel, in
every high school. Sometimes it seems as if Americans would rather stick
to the bright and sunny WWII fairy tales that Hollywood specializes in
rather than learn the true story. Please, dont let John Wayne re-write our
history. Millions of ordinary people were caught up in this cataclysmic
event, and yet the world barely remembers their ordeal. This is real history.
Perhaps the most valuable aspect of this book is that it reminds that -isms
can quickly turn poisonous if they approach the simple lives most people
lead as insignificant.
As a side note, this book is anything but dry and scholarly in tone. It is
shocking. Once you begin to accept the reality of what it conveys, it is hard
to put down.
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