Japan 1941 - Eri Hotta

Japan 1941: Countdown to infamy by Eri Hotta is a groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionise how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western readers, and barely explored in depth in Japan itself, Hotta poses an essential question: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens so unnecessarily in harm's way?