Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942

by Ian W. Toll

“Japan sent us not her fittest, but her unfittest; she has sent us the scum that has collected up on the surface of the boiling waters of her new national life, the human waste material for which she herself can find no use.”

Disturbingly familiar.

“the first to take the step of protest against his historically unique and shameless ill-treatment of truth,” for the attack on Pearl Harbor had filled “the German people, and I think, all other decent people in the world, with deep satisfaction.”

Again, shockingly familiar rhetoric in 2016-22. How do people not realize they are being manipulated?