| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was. By Tim Maga. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. xii, 194 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-2248-1.)

For one ex-G.I. who had packed his full field pack, his carbine, and his Japanese language dictionaries three different times to board ships for the invasion of Japan, Tim Maga's book evokes a fair amount of nostalgia. Certainly the sensational nature of the title whets the reader's appetite for a much more stimulating volume than the one at hand. Indeed, I did not find any information about the intended invasion, its strategy, its potential cost in human lives, etc., that has not appeared in previous studies in English, most of them referred to by Maga in his footnotes and/or bibliography. Maga has, in addition, utilized the personal papers of certain individuals such as George M. Elsey and George L. McColm, neither one of whom had a truly crucial role in the invasion preparation, and neither one of whom is sufficiently identified by Maga.

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