Customer Review: This is "the other" good book on Unit 731 and the bacteriological warfare research and development secret Japanese program (focused mainly in occupied Manchuria and Northern China, mainly in the 30's) that included (or rather consisted of) large-scale laboratory experimentation on humans doomed to... more info
Customer Review: The most outstanding attribute of this book is its honest depiction of Japan's atrocities. The description of these horrific onslaughts surpasses similar titles in some portions of the book.
But the downside is the author's attempt to explain why the Japanese acted as they did, as if doing so... more info
Customer Review: I read the other reviewers...I usually do that with historical books because of the importance of those who may have a different perspective than someone like me who is coming into this particular arena of history with no background. I have read a lot about the Nuremberg Trials, much about German... more info
Customer Review: It is often said that the sheer barbarity of the Japanese regime, in terms of how they treated military and civilian prisoners, during WW2, has remained unsurpassed to this day. The ways in which even a private soldier was able to indiscriminately summarily execute a prisoner without his superiors... more info
Customer Review: I am a collage student at Indiana state that is trying to earn a PHD in history, mainly in World War II. At one point in my studying it came to a point about the Japanese being prosocuted after the war. I went to Amazon.com to find any books on the subject and bought this book. It is great, it... more info