Killing the Rising Sun

I listened to the audiobook. It was very interesting and I learned some things about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Oppenheimer, Tojo, Little Boy and Fat Man that I did not know. This book had much more about the Japanese in it than other books I've read. I liked learning about some of their thoughts and motivations. The footnotes are good too.

This book, as should be obvious by its financer, shows unabashed bias purely for the justification for the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan in the waning days of World War II. Sandwiched in the middle of its storytelling of Japanese Atrocities, the book spends very little time reflecting on the actual horrors of the A-bomb upon Japan. The agenda of the book is trying to pin all of the blame onto Japan thanks to their actions during the war.

The overt nature of this book is politically motivated, which makes it more of a story meant to appeal to its readers of horrors that prove the A-bomb was a good idea, instead of telling the history of how/why it was dropped. However, when the book does get around to telling the history of the A-bomb development and the dropping of the said bomb, the historical accuracy is on point.