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Originally Posted by rkomar
I really enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Sword of Honour" trilogy, but that's from a Catholic Englishman's perspective. It's not so much a review of the facts of the war, but more of a general feeling from living among certain events. "Fires on the Plain" by Ooka Shohei was a novel about the disintegration of the Japanese Army in the Philippines while being pushed back by the Americans. It touches on the Samurai unwillingness to surrender, and is affecting, but rather grim.
Edit: Whoops, neither seem to be available as ebooks from Amazon. I had read them a long time ago, and assumed they would show up. :P
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Thanks, I'll keep them in mind for the future, especially the Evelyn Waugh one, as generally I'm more interested in the European theater than the Pacific theater.
Paper books or e-books; it doesn't matter.