Sorry, but I do not bother to read such utter garbage. Authors who want to re-write history to make the USA look to be no different than Japan in terms of morality or culpability are liberal trash in my mind.
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This "garbage" is not revisionist history. The author is a professor of history at MIT, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a recognized authority on the subject. The first time you see the picture of U.S. Marines boiling Japanese skulls on Guadalcanal to make keepsakes to send back home, you'll understand that the U.S. Marines were capable of some pretty horrendous stuff. He also analyzes American and Japanese propaganda during the war. If you actually read the book, you'll see that he does not subscribe any culpability for the war to the U.S, nor does he try and pass judgment on anyone. His point in the book is to only highlight the racism perpetuated by both sides of the conflict, and how it contributed to the extreme brutality of the PTO conflict, created the "no-quarter" relationship between the two sides, and ultimately increased the violence and casualties that resulted when compared to western-front ETO.
I was a military history major, and I am a former U.S. Marine officer, and in my opinion, this book is a "must" read for anyone wanting to have a rational understanding of the Pacific war. I am sorry that you're not open minded enough to consider this as worthwhile reading because I don't think any opinion on the prosecution of the Pacific campaign can be considered outside of the context of the racial differences between Japan and the Allies.
