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When Japan attacked america in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood these were entering a conflict these were bound to reduce. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they decide that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan nothing you've seen prior glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, practically escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable.
