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    The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes during World War II

    By Lord Russell of Liverpool

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    The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion. The Knights of Bushido, Russell's shocking account of Japanese brutality in the Pacific in World War II, describes how the noble founding principles of the Empire of Japan were perverted by the military into a systematic campaign of torture, murder, starvation, rape, and destruction.

    Notorious incidents like the Nanking Massacre and the Bataan Death March emerge as merely part of a pattern of human rights abuses. Undoubtedly formidable soldiers, the Japanese were terrible conquerors. Their conduct in the Pacific is a harrowing example of the doctrine of mutual destruction carried to the extreme and begs the question of what is acceptable and unacceptable in total war.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateAug 30, 2016
    ISBN9781473887589
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    The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes during World War II
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    Lord Russell of Liverpool

    Lord Russell of Liverpool served in World War I and II and acted as Deputy Judge Advocate General for the British Army of the Rhine, giving legal advice on the prosecution of war criminals. He also wrote The Scourge of the Swastika.

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    • 4/5
      This is a very confronting book. It details the war crimes perpetrate against the Allied forces and local inhabitants by the Japanese during WWII, and includes; the treatment , massacre and murder of prisoners of war; the death marches; the prison camps, including the civilian internment camps; war crimes on the high seas, and atrocities against the civilian populations. The events are reported factually without sensationalism (hardly necessary anyway due to the horrific nature of the crimes) and helps to explain the Japanese ethos of Bushido, loyalty to the Japanese institution, where it is considered a weakness to surrender or not fight to the death,
    • 5/5
      One of most heartbreakingbooks i've ever read. The explanation of the event with the pictures takes your imagination to places that you wont even want to go to...