Dan asked this question about Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan:
I would not be able to read anything by O'Reilly. I doubt he and his co authors could be objective in their search for a truly historical perspective. Does anyone else agree?
Pabc Babc KTRS was "War in the Pacific for Dummies". A re-hash of histories by more competent writers. Replete with a lot of "little" mistakes which indicate po…moreKTRS was "War in the Pacific for Dummies". A re-hash of histories by more competent writers. Replete with a lot of "little" mistakes which indicate poor research and proof-reading. Hum-drum writing lacking any originality. Almost as disappointing as "Killing Patton" which re-hashed
the European Theater. The conspiracy theory about Patton's death was embarrassingly thin on fact. Both books re-defined "unoriginal". (less)
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