While reading the book "Killing the Rising Sun", Bill O’Rielly and Martin Dugard touched on the Japanese invasion of Nanking China in 1937. After a Vietnam vet friend told me some more history, “The Rape of Nanking” was a must read.
I thought Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot had the corner market on human atrocities, but they had nothing compared to what the Japanese did at Nanking. Nearly 300,000 people raped, mutilated and murdered in a few weeks. A moral outrage of butchery of innocents and the savagery of the Japanese with indisputable evidence that went all the way up to the imperial family.
The acts described in this book are revealing and revolting. The book is an excellent read, captivating and compelling including real life heroes that saved thousands of lives. I was surprised to see this is merely a footnote in history, rarely taught in school and rarely discussed in Japan.
This book is truly a must read.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016
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Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2019
Being a Vietnam vet I know a little something about war and it was only after I became one that the WWII vets shared their experiences with me -- this was because they knew I could not judge them. Terrible things happen in war which is why it puzzles me when movie critics gush over anti-war movies -- has anyone ever seen a pro-war movie? [This doesn't count the films made about WWII which we had to fight.]
Also, I've been to Yasukuni Shrine, on my way to SE Asia I spent four months as a military policeman in Japan which enabled me to make a few Japanese friends who took me to the shrine. At first I was hesitant about going but I reasoned that I could acknowledge the private Japanese soldier who was probably little different from me. Though I'm glad that I didn't then know that the Japanese still believe that the war criminals hung by the Allies after the war crimes trials are present in spirit at the shrine -- and that the souls of these war criminals are honored there.
The Japanese even recently put up a statue to honor their Kamikaze pilots, these were men who were sent out in airplanes with a bomb, just enough petrol to get them to allied fleets and then commit suicide by crashing their planes into allied ships.
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A Must Read For Those Intereseted In WWII In The Pacific
By Simeon 'Sam' on May 10, 2019
After reading this book, the reader will understand why so many WWII vets who served in the Pacific campaigns told me, "We were fighting a war of extermination." which was because the Japanese soldier of the Imperial Army had been raised to believe in their Emperor as a living God among the most civilized people on earth (according to their own lights from 1939 -- 1945). The Japanese soldier believed that death in battle meant that their soul would return to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo where the people would come and worship them for eternity. Whereas surrender was the greatest mortal sin a soldier could commit; therefore, to surrender meant total ostracism while still alive and eternal damnation after death. Japanese soldiers were even trained to "pretend to surrender" so they could carry some kind of hidden weapon and get close to Allied soldiers so the Japanese soldier could (for instance) commit suicide by pulling the pin on a hand grenade while taking a few enemy soldiers with him. This is why the Allied soldiers learned not to take any prisoners -- it was that kind of war.By Simeon 'Sam' on May 10, 2019
Being a Vietnam vet I know a little something about war and it was only after I became one that the WWII vets shared their experiences with me -- this was because they knew I could not judge them. Terrible things happen in war which is why it puzzles me when movie critics gush over anti-war movies -- has anyone ever seen a pro-war movie? [This doesn't count the films made about WWII which we had to fight.]
Also, I've been to Yasukuni Shrine, on my way to SE Asia I spent four months as a military policeman in Japan which enabled me to make a few Japanese friends who took me to the shrine. At first I was hesitant about going but I reasoned that I could acknowledge the private Japanese soldier who was probably little different from me. Though I'm glad that I didn't then know that the Japanese still believe that the war criminals hung by the Allies after the war crimes trials are present in spirit at the shrine -- and that the souls of these war criminals are honored there.
The Japanese even recently put up a statue to honor their Kamikaze pilots, these were men who were sent out in airplanes with a bomb, just enough petrol to get them to allied fleets and then commit suicide by crashing their planes into allied ships.
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