Sacred War: Inside the Japanese Experience, 1937-1945

The first effort to reconstruct the history of the Pacific War exclusively from internal Japanese sources, from the renowned historians

A magisterial work of political, social, and military history, Sacred War sets a new standard for understanding the events that forever transformed America, Japan, and the world.

Celebrated historians Theodore F. and Haruko Taya Cook, whose oral history of the Pacific war was called “one of the essential books about World War II” (Philadelphia Inquirer), now ...