Summary, Analysis & Review of Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's Killing the Rising Sun by Instaread

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Summary, Analysis & Review of Bill O’Reilly’s and Martin Dugard’s Killing the Rising Sun by Instaread

 

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Killing the Rising Sun relates episodes from the Pacific theater of World War II including the controversial US decision to develop a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: Feb 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781683785361

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Killing the Rising Sun relates episodes from the Pacific theater of World War II including the controversial US decision to develop and utilize atomic weapons. Fueled by confidence in their racial superiority, the Japanese exerted great effort to expand their empire throughout East Asia. Once Prime Minister Hideki Tojo convinced Emperor Hirohito to attack Pearl Harbor, war with the United States and the other Allied forces was inevitable. Although Japan had agreed to previous Geneva Conventions, they violated those agreements throughout their war effort. From their pre-World War II invasion of China until after the emperor agreed to surrender, Japanese soldiers committed unspeakable acts, including rape, murder, mutilation of corpses, and enslavement of civilians.

The apparent determination of the Japanese emperor to fight an Allied land invasion to the death further escalated the dilemma within the Roosevelt and Truman administrations over whether to use the recently invented atomic bomb. Additional American tactics, such as fire-bombing with napalm, had already pushed the boundaries of ethical warfare to new and contentious extremes.

Fortunately for the East and the West, the atomic bombing wasn’t the end of the story but rather a new beginning. Through the help of General Douglas MacArthur, a transplant resident of the Philippines and avid traveler of East Asia, the United States assumed ultimate authority over Japan while Hirohito was permitted to retain