
Japan 1941
Countdown to Infamy
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Narrated by:
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Laural Merlington
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Eri Hotta
When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?
Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable.
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Thank you Eri..
Respectfully
born in camp Nisei..
Nisei's question "Why"?
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As I wrote, this history is an eye opener, a must read/listen to for anyone who is interested in WWII. The narration is excellent. It was hard to stop listening.
Unbelievable!
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I never knew
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An Excellent And Detailed Historical Work
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Narrator was passable.
Great listen
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Excellent book
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Not all wanted war.
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Thorough Examination of Japan’s Route to War
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A Must Read for Understanding Dec. 7th
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This makes for an interesting book, and it is thoroughly researched with memorable characters, but toward the final third of the book one begins to wonder why it hasn't ended. So much detail is given that the development of the central claim begins to feel like bludgeon work.
All in all, this is an interesting but rather bloated account of Japan's run up to war.
Interesting, but ultimately unnecessarily bloated.
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