RaveThe Post and CourierIntriguing ... Scott’s insight here into the inner circles of Japan’s top military brass as they struggle to surrender provides a cogent depiction of the Samurai Ethic ... It’s an epic, told at both a grand and very human scale. An amazing accomplishment.
James M. Scott
RaveThe Post and Courier\"James M. Scott’s third book on the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, is by far his most immediate and intimate ... With thorough research and vivid writing, Scott has managed to make incarnate many of these haunting spirits, and honor their lives, their struggles and their dignity.\