Flyboys by James Bradley

[AssKissinger]

Just finished this book. It dealt with Japanese cannibalism, the fire bombings and other juicy WWII stuff. I liked it pretty good but thought some of it might have been inaccurate or exaggerated. Has anyone else read this one?

[Socratesabroad]

Funny, I could have sworn I saw a thread with a review of the book around here somewhere...

[AssKissinger]

Funny, I could have sworn I saw a thread with a review of the book around here somewhere...

I thought there might be so I ran it through the FG search engine but nothing came up.

[Molokidan]

I've read this book too, and own it in hardcover. I thought it was a pretty good read...it kept my interest until the end, at least. Of course, there's always the risk of overexaggeration and skewing the truth in 'documentaries,' (especially the more controversial ones) but in all reality, I'm too lazy to go and research the difference.

[AssKissinger]

overexaggeration

He claims, almost by insinuation, that the Japanese were responsible for 30,000,000 deaths in China. I think the real figure is in the hundreds of thousands not millions.

[dimwit]

overexaggeration

He claims, almost by insinuation, that the Japanese were responsible for 30,000,000 deaths in China. I think the real figure is in the hundreds of thousands not millions.

The most reliable figures I have read are somewhat over 21 million Chinese died of which 20 million were civilians. It is however, probably impossible to determine if they were killed by the Japanese or by other Chinese who enjoying the pleasures of fratricidal war.

[AssKissinger]

I think the normal death rate for China during that time should have been like 5,000,000 people a year. I wonder how many people died altogether in China during the occupation.