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It’s not a bad history overall. It’s reasonably detailed, although much more concerned with Japanese units and their movements and condition than with corresponding American units. However, there is an unrelenting anti-American sentiment that I found quite jarring. The author details a fairly typical bit of Japanese racial prejudice as proving that racism is not strictly an American monopoly. Seriously? Not even Hitler’s Germany was nearly as relentlessly and brutally racist as Imperial Japan, and yet even then the author can’t help himself from taking a jab at Americans.

I do not recommend this book. It’s simply too anti-American. But readers steeped in the modern ethos of “all cultures are equal - except America is evil” should find it right up their alleys.


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The Battle of Okinawa The Blood and the Bomb eBook George Feifer Reviews

Extremely detailed. Really puts the war in the Pacific in context. Great memories from both sides. Fascinating.
Bless the Okinawa people for all they have suffered. Bless also the many American, Japanese, British and Okinawn men and women killed in this highly politicized battle. Who knew?
This was one of the best books I have read concerning World War II. The author makes you feel almost like you were there, but not quite. It is an excellent book.
Very impressive storytelling from mainly survivor interviews. Absolutely chilling descriptions of the killing fields with equal representation of atrocities by both armies. Should be required reading
I was a child during WWII, so I really didn't have much grasp about what was really happening. This book is amazing. I learned a great deal that I wasn't aware of. Very good reading -- for any teenager on up.
I have only read about 100 pages or less (I'm reading it on my , so I can't tell exactly what page). I thought the introduction had some implied evil by American soldiers (in Grenada and Panama) which I didn't appreciate, seeming to imply that we were just as bad as the Japanese, which is something that might be discussed, but not in a history book. Now I am reading about the sad destruction of the giant battleship Yamato. I haven't read the whole book and I may change my mind, but this seems like more of an anti-war book rather than a history.
This account has the ring of truth. It examines the experiences of the American invaders, the Japanese soldiers, and Okinawan natives. It gives actual accounts of the major battles and delves into the psyche of the Japanese soldiers to explain why they refused to surrender, even though they were starving, living in filth, and running out of ammunition. Sad to relate that this battle ruined the ancient culture of Okinawa, reducing the whole island to ruins, killing over 100,000 Okinawans, and leaving the survivors starving.
It’s not a bad history overall. It’s reasonably detailed, although much more concerned with Japanese units and their movements and condition than with corresponding American units. However, there is an unrelenting anti-American sentiment that I found quite jarring. The author details a fairly typical bit of Japanese racial prejudice as proving that racism is not strictly an American monopoly. Seriously? Not even Hitler’s Germany was nearly as relentlessly and brutally racist as Imperial Japan, and yet even then the author can’t help himself from taking a jab at Americans.

I do not recommend this book. It’s simply too anti-American. But readers steeped in the modern ethos of “all cultures are equal - except America is evil” should find it right up their alleys.