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Japan 1941: Countdown To Infamy (2013)

by Eri Hotta(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307594017 (ISBN13: 9780307594013)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: This is an account of how the Japanese government kept making decisions that led them into a war that pretty much everyone knew would result in a devastating loss. It was interesting, though the experience of reading it was made peculiar by the fact that I had had the impression that the book was about what daily life was like in Japan before Pearl Harbor. With that misapprehension, I spent about three chapters wading through all the detail about government leaders and committee structures waiting for the author to get to where I thought she was going, when it turned out she was already there.
review 2: Reading about WWII Pacific theater and traveling in Japan I always asked myself the question, why did Japan attack the US at Pearl Harbor. This book provides... more excellent insight to the machinations of the Japan leadership and how they awkwardly stumbled towards war with the US. The author (Eri Hotta) provides details into the key actors in this drama and describes the sentiment of both the leaders and the populace. Very readable and balanced in the dynamics at play. less

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