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Book Reviews of Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
Retribution The Battle for Japan 1944 45
Author: Max Hastings
ISBN-13: 9780307263513
ISBN-10: 0307263517
Publication Date: 3/18/2008
Pages: 656
Rating:
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4.5 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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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.