Kogun: The Japanese Army In The Pacific War (1989) By Saburo Hayashi with Alvin D. Coox
 
KOGUN is the short form for Imperial Japanese Army, whose full title would be Dai Nippon Teikoku Rikugun

This account of the Japanese Army in World War II was written by a Japanese Army officer from Japanese sources and for a Japanese audience. In the fog of war opposing sides have divergent views of what actually occurred. In order to preserve the authenticity of the Japanese view, no attempt has been made in this English transla­tion to bring it into consonance with the American view of the operations described.
 
This book goes far beyond a mere recounting of battles and campaigns.  Instead, it commences with a sound analysis of the Meiji era background and moves on with authority to treat significant trends and causes (as well as results) of the tragedy which was pre-war Japanese militarism.
 
The author focuses on the following problems:
--How did the army high command estimate the situation throughout the Pacific War?
--On what thinking was its plans of operation founded?
---How did it actually conduct matters?
 
From this framework a remarkably clear picture develops of high command errors in making estimates of the situation; mismanagement in the conduct of operations and internal disagreement on basic policy
 
This is a reprint of the original by the Marines Corps Association.
 
Soft Cover
249 pages
In Fair Condition- centre pages are coming detached from the spine