The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War)

A brillant read. Informative and captiviting at the same time. The writing is superb. The behavior of the Japanese military in WW2 was fascinating and puzzling. If you get the time pick this up.

If you are a war junkie, and like history ...read this.

An amazing book. Love it. I'm less than a third of the way through it, and I can't put it down. There's so much that I know now that I didn't know before. And now I just want to shoot those awful people who made the film "Pearl Harbor", for feeding the American people such awful lies and fostering such awful misconceptions about the Japanese political leaders and...more

An amazing book. Love it. I'm less than a third of the way through it, and I can't put it down. There's so much that I know now that I didn't know before. And now I just want to shoot those awful people who made the film "Pearl Harbor", for feeding the American people such awful lies and fostering such awful misconceptions about the Japanese political leaders and their doctrines.   hide

Fairly decent view of the Pacific War.The only way the war could end was IF they got nuked, otherwise, their pride would have prevented them from surrendering, and we'd have had to kill every single Japanese citizen and soldier.