Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 | Max Hastings

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 | Max Hastings | Behind the Scenes

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	Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 Max Hastings Knopf, 2008 - 656 pages average customer review:based on 49 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Ruthless War

Max Hastings' well written book, Retribution, is a grippingly powerful story about the final campaigns of World War II in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, many of them personal accounts, Professor Hastings provides a well focused look inside the desperate fighting that took place in the final year of the war against the "Empire of Japan." Combined with his insights into the leaders of the different forces, and the shambles that were happening in China, Hastings explodes many of the popular "myths" that came out of WW II surrounding the fighting in the closing year of the war. He sets the stage for much of what is going on today in the region politically and economically.

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Behind the Scenes

This book, while lengthy, is very well written and takes the reader behind the typical military operations. It involves the more humane, or rather inhumane, stories of the blunders of both the Allies and the Japanese war machine. I found it very educational and full of many eye-witness accounts. The author seems very balanced in his approach and delivers praise where due as well as criticsm. The author points out that sometimes the Japanese Navy just blundered, not so much that the U.S. Navy made a brilliant tactical move. As uisual, Macarther is wrapped up in his ego and oblivious to the real needs of the war.

Highly recommended for followers of Japan's involement in WWII.

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Awesome

I have literally read hundreds of books on the Pacific War but this is the best. Well written with scores of new info and acute observations. Not a re-telling but a new interpretation. He lays to rest the myth that the bomb was not necessary. As the son of a combat engineer who was scheduled for the first wave in the invasion, the bomb was always viewed as a life saving event. Hastings expounds and explains this seeming paradox. As fine as his prior volumes. I put down the Coldest Winter to read this as soon as it arrived.

Retribution

This is one of the finest books about WWII that I have ever read. I would recommend it to any one who studies WWII history

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complex,

Complex reading; need to have knowledge of politics and history and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Excellent

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