A very enjoyable book and a series of testimonials of absolute value.

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On The Old Barbed Wire

This excellent book is the result of a series of interviews with Japanese veterans of the Second World War, carried out by an Australian author who living in Japan when he began.

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History of War

Wow, what a really good book to read. I know this is a book about Japanese war experiences from the Japanese viewpoint, and we’ve had other books like this from the German angle. But this was really good and enlightening seeing things from the viewpoint of different Japanese soldiers. What comes across is their steeliness and determination in that whatever they did was a good and brave thing. From reading the book it did come across that the Japanese soldiers felt more righteous, whereas from reading similar books about British, American and German troops it seemed like they were wanting to fight to win the war, but that wasn’t everyone and not everyone enjoyed fighting. Credit must go to the writer who has had to collate a lot of evidence and has written the book very well indeed. I would definitely recommend this book to others, and I have really enjoyed reading it.

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UK Historian

Japan’s Pacific War provides revealing insights into the mind of a formidable adversary and is highly recommended to military historians as well as those interested in the cultural differences between the Eastern and Western attitude to war.

Marcus Fielding, RUSI