Reviews for War With Japan

The average rating for War With Japan based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-13 00:00:00 Robert E Nemchik HP Willmott is one of the best historians of the Pacific War, his cogent analysis, well-considered criticism and narrative style are second-to-none. Though short, this book does a nice job covering the critical period of May 1942, the high-water mark of Japanese advances, and late 1943, the point at which the momentum irreversibly shifted to the Allies.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-14 00:00:00 Kevin Perrone This is an eclectic collection of stories, anecdotes, essays and journal entries. The stories tend to the melancholic, which is well served by Hearn's elegant, atmospheric style. They've probably aged better then the essays, which are quite of their time. References to racial type, which might be quite reasonable in other words, grate. And the Japan that Hearn describes is quite different from Japan now, certainly when it comes to the cityscape. You wonder what he'd think of how things have changed. But most of the essays are actually rather metaphysical, being on Buddhism, or the Japanese concept of the soul. Some of them are better than others, but they all paint an intriguing picture of another world - a world now distant in time, and not just space.