The knights of Bushido : a history of Japanese war crimes during World War II (1958, repub 2002)
The knights of Bushido : a history of Japanese war crimes during World War II
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By Baron Edward Frederick Langley Russell, 1895-1981
(click the title for an archived PDF)
By Baron Edward Frederick Langley Russell, 1895-1981
The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and
Tokyo meted out the Allies’ official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool’s
sensational bestselling books on Germany’s and Japan’s war crimes decided the
public’s opinion. The Knights of Bushido, Russell’s account of
Japanese brutality in the Pacific in World War II, carefully compiles evidence
given at the trials themselves. Russell describes how the noble founding
principles of the Empire of Japan were perverted by the military into a
systematic campaign of torture, murder, starvation, rape, and destruction.
Notorious incidents like the Nanking Massacre and the Bataan Death March emerge
as merely part of a pattern.
The knights of Bushido
The scourge of the swastika: A short history of Nazi war crimes (1954)
With a new introduction for this edition, The Knights of Bushido details the horrors perpetrated by a military caught up in an ideological fervour. Often expecting death, the Japanese flouted the Geneva Convention (which they refused to ratify). They murdered aircrews, bayoneted prisoners, carried out arbitrary decapitations, and practised medical vivisection. Undoubtedly formidable soldiers, the Japanese were terrible conquerors. Their conduct in the Pacific is a harrowing example of the doctrine of mutual destruction carried to the extreme, and begs the question of what is acceptable -and unacceptable - in total war.
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The knights of Bushido
The scourge of the swastika: A short history of Nazi war crimes (1954)
With a new introduction for this edition, The Knights of Bushido details the horrors perpetrated by a military caught up in an ideological fervour. Often expecting death, the Japanese flouted the Geneva Convention (which they refused to ratify). They murdered aircrews, bayoneted prisoners, carried out arbitrary decapitations, and practised medical vivisection. Undoubtedly formidable soldiers, the Japanese were terrible conquerors. Their conduct in the Pacific is a harrowing example of the doctrine of mutual destruction carried to the extreme, and begs the question of what is acceptable -and unacceptable - in total war.
