Title: Not satisfactory
Product review: Dower fails to prove that the war in the Pacific was a race war as he claims. He also fails to prove that the presence of racism caused men to fight harder in the pacific thus resulting in more casualties (and fails to prove that racism would cause one to fight harder). He fails tie his evidence together logicaly and tends to ramble. Some of his "evidence" of racism is pathetic, such as analogies comparing war to hunting. He seems to believe these analogies were confined to WWII in the Pacific but they were in fact present in WWI and in Europe during WWII (especially with air combat). War naturally lends itself quite well to hunting analogies on the tactical level and has nothing to do with racism. The presence of racism does not make WWII a race war. The worst part is Dower makes his bias rediculously obvious. He also understates Japanese atrocities and overstates Allied "atrocities". This book is a stretch.
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