Warriors Of The Rising Sun: A History Of The Japanese Military
Autor Robert Edgertonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 1999
During
World
War
II,
many
of
Japan's
soldiers
committed
such
crimes
against
humanity
that
the
world
recoiled
in
horror.
During
the
notorious
six-week-long
“rape
of
Nanking”
in
1937,
Japanese
forces
murdered
at
least
200,000
men,
women,
and
children.
Throughout
the
Pacific
War,
Allied
prisoners
were
often
starved,
tortured,
beheaded,
even
cannibalized.
Although
Japan's
military
men
fought
bravely
against
outnumbering
forces
again
and
again,
their
astonishing
brutality
made
them
a
loathsome,
unforgivable
enemy.While
this
chapter
of
Japanese
history
is
well
known,
few
realize
that
earlier
in
this
century
the
Japanese
were
celebrated
throughout
the
West
for
their
chivalry
in
warfare.
During
the
Boxer
Rebellion
in
China
and
the
savage
Russo-Japanese
War
of
1904-5,
the
Western
Press
lauded
the
Japanese
for
their
kindness
to
the
wounded
and
imprisoned
enemy.Warriors
of
the
Rising
Sunchronicles
the
Japanese
military's
transformation
from
honorable
“knights
of
Bushido”
into
men
who
massacred
thousands
during
the
Pacific
War.
Crucial
in
bringing
about
this
change
was
Western
rejection
of
Japan
as
an
aspiring
colonial
power,
as
well
as
the
West's
racist,
anti-Japanese
immigration
policies.
Japan's
leaders
chose
military
brutality
as
a
necessary
means
to
achieve
a
rightful
place
in
the
world.
Today,
Japan
has
the
second
largest
military
budget
in
the
world.
What
lessons
have
her
leaders
learned
from
the
past
wars?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813336008
ISBN-10: 0813336007
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0813336007
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Robert
B.
Edgertonis
the
author
of
more
than
twenty
other
books
on
a
variety
of
sociological,
anthropological,
and
historical
topics,
most
recentlyHidden
Heroism(Westview
2001).
He
also
teaches
anthropology
at
the
UCLA
School
of
Medicine.