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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
Retribution The Battle for Japan 1944 45
Author: Max Hastings
Hailed in Britain as “Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful” (Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307263513
ISBN-10: 0307263517
Publication Date: 3/18/2008
Pages: 656
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Much more about the British campaigns (in Burma) than I am used to reading about. I had never heard of the British General Slim. Author is not a big fan of Mao, using lots of disparaging phrases like "their kind" when referring to Westerners who had a high opinion of Mao and the communists during the war. A fair amount of first hand accounts from the Asian soldiers.


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