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Review title: Not a particularly well written or accurate history
Product review: This is one of the most annoying histories I've read.In it everything seems to be excusable. In the run up to the war there appears to be an explanation for all manner of incompetence whether the Navy's inability to prepare for Pearl Harbor or the failure of the bureaucracy to react appropriately to the threat. (Similar to our current government's inability to be accountable for Iraq and even missing the clues to 9/11) McArthur is presented as a flawless leader who heroically stands outside on Corregidor while the bombs are falling and his subordinates scurrying for cover--behaviour not documented elsewhere.The book is revisionist and not a worthy history of the era and certainly not in the same league as Rick Atkinson's recent histories of the was in North Africa and Italy and posited by another reviewer.
