Books / Book 365
Date: 2003-11-21 (permlink)
Author: Saburo Ienaga
Name: The Pacific War 1931-1945 (Taiheiyo Senso)
Rating: 3 stars

Doesn't deal much at all with the actual warfare, mostly it talks about the politics behind the war, what led to the war, repercussions of the war. Not a bad thing, but sometimes his preachiness does get annoying.

Then there's the blatantly false statements, one example of which is: "The Chinese Communist army proved that in a national crisis only democracy can inspire patriotism, raise national consciousness, and galvanize it into fighting power against aggression." It makes the author's credibility questionable when such a basic fact as Soviet Union's struggle against Germany in WWII is unheard of.