Max Hastings' Retribution tells a similar story about the war in the Pacific. Japan lost the war at Midway.Yamamoto understood this but the demands of bushido prevented negotiation of a peace let alone negotiated surrender. As the Allied powers encountered the meaning of bushido, the turn to retribution was hard to resist.
Max Hastings' Retribution tells a similar story about the war in the Pacific. Japan lost the war at Midway.Yamamoto understood this but the demands of bushido prevented negotiation of a peace let alone negotiated surrender. As the Allied powers encountered the meaning of bushido, the turn to retribution was hard to resist.
Max Hastings' Retribution tells a similar story about the war in the Pacific. Japan lost the war at Midway.Yamamoto understood this but the demands of bushido prevented negotiation of a peace let alone negotiated surrender. As the Allied powers encountered the meaning of bushido, the turn to retribution was hard to resist.