{"product_id":"sacred-war-theodore-f-cook-9781620970621","title":"Sacred War: Inside the Japanese Experience, 1937-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first effort to reconstruct the history of the Pacific War exclusively from internal Japanese sources, from the renowned historians \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magisterial work of political, social, and military history, \u003cem\u003eSacred War\u003c\/em\u003e sets a new standard for understanding the events that forever transformed America, Japan, and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated historians Theodore F. and Haruko Taya Cook, whose oral history of the Pacific war was called \"one of the essential books about World War II\" (\u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e), now offer a shattering new history of Japan's long war in the Pacific, told exclusively from the perspective of the Japanese. \u003cem\u003eSacred War\u003c\/em\u003e draws on a rich trove of documents, much of it first-person and almost all of it previously inaccessible to Western scholars. Based on painstaking research, here is World War II through the eyes of the Japanese themselves: ordinary people on the home front, soldiers on the front lines, and the military and political leadership who drove Japan to near annihilation by 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSacred War\u003c\/em\u003e reveals both the internal logic of an authoritarian society bent on victory at all costs--including, in the final twelve months of the war, over one million civilian deaths--as well as heartrending accounts of the unfolding conflict, from the disease-ridden beaches on Guadalcanal to the burnt-out streets of Hiroshima, following the nuclear attacks by the United States that brought the war to its devastating end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Theodore F. Cook, Haruko Taya Cook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620970627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620970621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Theodore F. Cook","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44809798975743,"sku":"9781620970621","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23a2ec3d-a37d-4a68-bd3e-846541a0b393.jpg?v=1707927504","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-war-theodore-f-cook-9781620970621","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}