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Sto caricando le informazioni... Japan at War: An Oral Historydi Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Simply harrowing to say the least. Sometimes even nauseating. Highly recommend to people who don't understand how people can commit atrocious acts, but also to people who don't understand how integral understanding the culture climate of an area is to understanding why things turned out the way they did. ( ) This book was amazing. It's a really hard and tough read because it's so densely packed with information. And not just information you've heard before, it's the good, the bad, and the very very ugly side of the Japanese Empire. From the beginning of the war to the beginning of the occupation, the first hand accounts are priceless. This book is sure to create a whirlwind of emotions with anyone who reads it. Although I'd recommend it mainly to history buffs, WWII researchers, or anyone studying any facet of Japan, it really is a moving book about the monstrosities of humanity and war. To learn about how valuable world peace and eliminating genocide and how important human rights are, this book offers many more lessons than one would wish to have happened. Great book. Significance This book is one of the few compilations of first-hand accounts of common, everyday people--both victims and perpetrators of violence. Artwork/Writing/Narrative/Organization * Its diverse sampling of Japanese society is wonderful. * Arranged in a common sense chronological order. * Divided into well-defined subjects. Personal Notes War affects the common people the most--much more than the leaders and the privileged classes--that's why their story needs to be told. Ever since I read Studs Terkel's [b:A Good War: Oral History of WWII|1424076|A Good War Oral History of WWII|Studs Terkel|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266798888s/1424076.jpg|2146893] years ago, I've always been on the lookout for books that collect interviews such as these. Very well done picture, from oral histories, of the mental state and beliefs of the varied strata within the Japanese People cum WW2. Penetrative insights into the pervasive propaganda and motivation that emphasized the feelings of frustration and bitterness used to justify the very aggressive warlike policies and actions of their militaristic regime. The two authors used their unique backgrounds to aptly portray a society little understood in this period by the vast majority of Occidental politicians and military leaders. They collected, organized and presented these data to tell their own story and did it extremely well. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro Wikipedia in inglese (10)This pathbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever - in either Japanese or English - 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 century's most violent conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population. Japan at War documents a huge range of experiences, from long-ago memories of being taught to play at soldiering in school to personal accounts of carrying out horrendous medical experiments and ruthless massacres. Here are the soldiers and sailors caught in the jungles of New Guinea and on the seas around the Philippines. Here, too, are proud builders of the Burma railway, and unrepentant generals, as well as conscripts whose political or intellectual training made them unwilling participants in the horrors wrought by their country. Japanese newspapermen, filmmakers, artists, cabaret dancers, and diplomats speak candidly about their wartime experiences, adding a whole new dimension to the now-famous symbols of kamikaze pilots and human torpedoes. As they crisscrossed Japan seeking out survivors of a war that cost that country over 3 million lives, the authors encountered every form of human response: those who held to their principles and those who gave in to opportunism, those who controlled events as well as the many - including women and children - who were caught up in the horrific whirlpool. No book to date has captured the complex range of Japanese experiences and emotions as does Japan at War. This is a monumental work of history - one to which Americans and Japanese will turn for decades to come. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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