Japan at War: An Oral History (1992, 1993) By Haruko Taya Cook & Theodore F. Cook
 
This "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) portrays the Japanese experience of WWII. This oral history is the first book to capture - in either Japanese or English - the experience of ordinary Japanese during the war.

In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya Cook & Theodore F. Cook go from the Japanese attacks on China in the '30s to the Japanese home front during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how the 20th century's most deadly conflict affected the lives of the population. The book "seeks out the true feelings of the wartime generation & illuminates the contradictions between the official views of the war & living testimony
 
Hard Cover With Dust Jacket (1992) and Soft Cover (1993) Options
479 pages
In Good Condition