In a vivid, sweeping panorama, this captivating Oral History relates the remarkable story of Japanese people living during World War II, offering the first glimpses of how this century\'s most violent conflict affected the lives of the ordinary Japanese population.
With more than 30,000 copies sold to date, this edition features an updated cover designed to appeal to a new generation of readers..
Japan at War is a book to which Americans and Japanese will continue to turn for decades to come.
The book seeks out the true feelings of the wartime generation and] illuminates the contradictions between the official views of the war and living testimony ( Yomiuri Shimbun , Japan).
Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese home front during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how the twentieth century\'s most deadly conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population.
In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F.
This pathbreaking work of Oral History is the first book ever to capture--in either Japanese or English--the experience of ordinary Japanese people during the war.
Following the release of Clint Eastwood\'s epic film Letters from Iwo Jima , which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, there has been a renewed fascination and interest in the Japanese perspective on World War II.
In a vivid, sweeping panorama, this captivating Oral History relates the remarkable story of Japanese people living during World War II, offering the first glimpses of how this century\'s most violent conflict affected the lives of the ordinary Japanese population
