The Japanese were clearly less willing to surrender than the Germans. The average German in 1945 offered little to no resistance to the advancing Allied troops (mainly the Western Allies; they were harder on the Soviets after hearing all the stori…
The Japanese soldiers were so cruel during WWII that it beggers belief. There is a tendency in fiction of authors trying to be impartial when depicting historic conflicts. In the 2007 film Letters from Iwo Jima we follow a sympathetic group of Jap…
Japan sought an empire as did Great Britain, Russia, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Germany and China. But the United States also wanted to be an empire. In the unfortunate world of everybody’s territory being somebody else’s e…
