Great to hear about your experiences in Japan and the Philippines.
Another good book I recently heard on Audio CD was Bill O’Reilly’s Killing the Rising Sun, which focuses on the last year and a half of bloody battles between the US and Japan.
O’Reilly and his co-author go through the horros of Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa and the butchery and rapes of the Japanese in the Philippines were discussed as well.
By the you got to history of the A-Bomb you knew it was absolutely the right decision for Americans and Japanese.
Highly recommend that book. I just love the Audio CD format because I can listen to it in the car and kill dead time on my commute.
“By the you got to history of the A-Bomb you knew it was absolutely the right decision for Americans and Japanese.”
The book, “The Navy at High Tide” goes into the Abomb subject in depth. People today who cry about it have no understanding of what they are talking about. There was absolutely no reason to believe that Tojo and his Army would ever surrender to an invasion. Or ever give in to being blockaded. They were willing to sacrifice every man woman and child in Japan on the altar of their perverted sense of honor. It took the Abomb to shock the Emperor into supporting surrender. It is foolish to think otherwise.
But apparently safe to do so from a distant future where nothing personal is at risk.