BOOK EXAMINES JAPAN'S DUMPING OF CHIVALRY DURING WORLD WAR II.(Lifestyle)(Review)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: July 28, 1997 | Copyright information

The history of Japan in the 20th century is like the Faust legend played out on the stage of global politics. Japan (not alone in this) sold its birthright for the sake of national glory. In his readably panoramic history of the Japanese military, Robert B. Edgerton does not write of the Faustian myth. But his thoughtful, well-researched book is nonetheless an account of a nation's tragic effort to achieve a grandiose purpose through force of arms, committing some of the most notorious acts of savagery of the sad 20th century and thereby losing the moral character it had before it ...

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