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

    By Frederick Langley Russell and Yuma Totani

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    From the author of The Scourge of the Swastika: “A grim record of massacre and murder, of torture, slave labor, and starvation” (The New York Times).
     
    The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies’ official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool’s sensational bestselling books on Germany’s and Japan’s war crimes decided the public’s opinion. The Knights of Bushido, Russell’s account of Japanese brutality in the Pacific in World War II, carefully compiles evidence given at the trials themselves. Russell 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.
     
    With a new introduction for this edition, The Knights of Bushido details the horrors perpetrated by a military caught up in an ideological fervor. Often expecting death, the Japanese flouted the Geneva Convention (which they refused to ratify). They murdered aircrews, bayoneted prisoners, carried out arbitrary decapitations, and practiced medical vivisection. 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
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 17, 2008
    ISBN9781628730661
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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...