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The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
Author(s): Lord Russell (Author)
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date: 17 Aug. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 334 pages
- ISBN-10: 1602391459
- ISBN-13: 9781602391451
Book Description
The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies’ official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool’s sensational bestselling books on the Axis’ war crimes decided the public’s opinion. The Knights of Bushido, Russell’s shocking account of Japanese brutality in the Pacific in World War II, describes how the noble founding principles of the Empire of Japan were perverted by the military into a systematic campaign of torture, murder, starvation, rape, and destruction. Notorious incidents like the Nanking Massacre and the Bataan Death March emerge as merely part of a pattern of human rights abuses. Undoubtedly formidable soldiers, the Japanese were terrible conquerors. Their conduct in the Pacific is a harrowing example of the doctrine of mutual destruction carried to the extreme, and begs the question of what is acceptable—and unacceptable—in total war.
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About the Author
Edward Frederick Langley Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool, was a three-time winner of the Military Cross in World War I. He served as Deputy Judge Advocate General for the British army of the Rhine and was a chief legal adviser for Britain during the war crimes trials following World War II. He also wrote The Scourge of the Swastika about the war crimes of the Nazis. He died in 1981.
