PositiveThe Seattle Times... compelling and ambitious ... The book maintains a taut narrative ... Scott offers plenty of important context to the raids. He amply details the sense of urgency among the U.S. Army Air Forces leadership to try to finish off the Pacific conflict and avoid a ground invasion of Japan. And, in an interview, he notes that by the time LeMay developed the campaign, the Japanese, Germans and British all adapted bombing campaigns and other tactics that targeted civilians ... But he also offers some stark assessments of the strategy developed by LeMay.
James M. Scott
RaveThe Seattle Times\"... a chilling, sometimes horrifying narrative of some of the fiercest urban fighting of World War II ... Scott, in the early chapters of the book, offers a compelling portrait of MacArthur ... I found the hardest reading to be the graphic accounts of the slaughter of women and babies. Scott gives voices to the victims, and that is an important service to history. And it is all meticulously footnoted from sources that include archived eyewitness accounts in the Philippines and the U.S. as well as the author’s interviews with survivors. Fortunately, Scott... is a fine writer, and he musters his considerable talents to move the storyline forward, and keep Rampage from bogging down into a grim catalog of wartime atrocities.\
