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Based on first impressions, Toll provides a fair assessment of Allied and Japanese decision-making and strategy. “Pacific Crucible” continues to educate.

Toll’s decision to document the mass hysteria in Pearl Harbor following the bombing as opposed to the attack was a fascinating read. As Toll chronicled the cultural shifts in the Japanese government and military during the ‘20s/‘30s, he quietly explained the acceptance of brutality towards combatants and noncombatants between the Russo-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War, and eventual WWII.