From Baird Maritime:
The author and publisher of this book and its equally illuminating and excellent predecessor "Slaughter at Sea: The Story of Japan's Naval War Crimes" deserve much praise for their courage in raising these important historical matters.
Political correctness, political expediency and profit have largely conspired to sweep much of Japan's appalling wartime record under the carpet. Of all the countries that suffered under the Samurai sword, really only China has maintained its rage. Perhaps the author's Chinese wife has stiffened his resolve.
While large sections of the Imperial Japanese forces carried out acts of almost unspeakable bestiality and cruelty during World War Two, there is no doubt that the Kempeitai, or Japanese SS, were the worst of the worst.
This very carefully researched and documented book painstakingly sets out most of the major crimes committed throughout the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere by the Kempeitai. It is a great pity that this book is unlikely to be much read in Japan. It would surely be very humanising for the current generation of Japanese to made more aware of the sins of many of their grandfathers.
Vital reading for anyone interested in learning the truth.
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