The rising sun
1900
- guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- world war, 1939-1945
- japan
- history
- histoire
- geschichte 1936-1945
- weltkrieg (1939-1945)
- world war (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst01180924
- geschichte
- außenpolitik
The story
Comprehensive account of the military and political events that led to Pearl Harbor, the war in the Pacific, and Japan's defeat; based on interviews with participants, and told from a Japanese point of view.
What it’s like
Measured, dense and unhurried, with the texture of a long archival reckoning: a narrative history that moves in close, chronological steps through government chambers, staff meetings, cramped wartime cabinets and island battlefields. Its voice is steady and documentary, built from quoted testimony and interview fragments, so the pages feel like many remembered rooms set side by side rather than one dramatic arc. The tone is sober and analytical, with little lyricism, and the mood is heavy and grey, closer to a rainy afternoon at a library table than to escape. Violence is present throughout and described plainly: air raids, naval engagements, the kamikaze campaign, and the atomic bombings, with some passages on wartime cruelty that are direct rather than graphic. Pacing is slow in the diplomatic chapters and quickens in the combat sections. It suits a reader who wants serious, unsentimental history and is willing to sit with grim material over several long sessions. It is for people interested in how decisions were made from the Japanese side of the Pacific War, and who want the human detail of those decisions.
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