Reading List
Sep. 21st, 2020 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enter_remigesThis post has been sitting open in a tab since *checks calendar* uhhh July. /0\ "I'll get back to it," she said. "I won't forget," she said. "I don't have the object permeance of a small child," she said.
Narrator voice: This Was Incorrect.
Anyway, have a very belated reading list!
* Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki
I wasn't as interested in the battle details as the more personal parts + overall history on Japan, but I still enjoyed this! I may have to buy the other two books in the series though, since none of the libraries in the state have copies.
* Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki
A (slightly) fictionalized memoir following Shigeru Mizuki and his unit as theyʻre ordered on a suicide charge to make up for the fact that their deaths on a previous suicide charge were erroneously reported. Big focus on the senselessness of both their deaths and war in general. There are some panels that are used in this book as well as in Showa 1939-1944, which I thought was interesting. :D
* To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino
I read this before I realized August would be the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but my timing was spot-on. The focus of the book is on the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombs through accounts of survivors, rather than justification for / against dropping the bombs. Genuinely horrific. I found out later that thereʻs some controversy surrounding the author, but I would still highly recommend it.
Narrator voice: This Was Incorrect.
Anyway, have a very belated reading list!
* Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki
I wasn't as interested in the battle details as the more personal parts + overall history on Japan, but I still enjoyed this! I may have to buy the other two books in the series though, since none of the libraries in the state have copies.
* Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki
A (slightly) fictionalized memoir following Shigeru Mizuki and his unit as theyʻre ordered on a suicide charge to make up for the fact that their deaths on a previous suicide charge were erroneously reported. Big focus on the senselessness of both their deaths and war in general. There are some panels that are used in this book as well as in Showa 1939-1944, which I thought was interesting. :D
* To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino
I read this before I realized August would be the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but my timing was spot-on. The focus of the book is on the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombs through accounts of survivors, rather than justification for / against dropping the bombs. Genuinely horrific. I found out later that thereʻs some controversy surrounding the author, but I would still highly recommend it.
