Review: Totally unbelievable....avoid at all cost
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2013
Note this review is full of spoilers for you to understand my 1 star rating.The premise of the book interested me...the idea of Japan winning its pacific war and how this might happen, after reading the sample I bought the book with high hopes and looked forward to a very long read (book over 700 pages), the idea seemed to be that Japans armed forces more properly supplied and organised would achieve what wasn't possible in the read timeline.The first 20% of the book was good, japans forces making a grab for the dutch east indies and its oil as well as its continuing actions in China and concentrating on the main character of the book, a general recognised as a supply genius by his superiors.However after that it was all downhill...where do I startOn the military side Russia is defeated by a combined action of Japan & Germany. Whilst I accept this is possible the country is just to huge to be carved up so easily (it barely covers a few pages) and china after the early mentions of Japanese occupation of Manchuria is never mentioned again. India after the defeat of Britain by Germany seems to meekly accept Japanese rule when more than likely out and out revolution would have occurred, Australia and New Zealand meekly accept Japanese rule and saving the best for last..........not a peep out of America in the whole book ohh they are talked about a lot but America accepts Canada becoming part of Germanys sphere of influence after the collapse of Britain....all of it totally unrealistic.Most of the book surprisingly concentrates of the main characters desires to reinstate the old shogun era of concubines and page after page covers his plan to make two young English girls his first concubines rather than be put into a army brothel, the author seems to be obsessed with this as large swathes of the book is dedicated to this.A german victory in WW2 has been written about extensively however a Japanese victory in WW2 rarely touched as its widely recognised to be almost impossible, the authors premise Is good that of a properly supplied Japanese army doing much better, he clearly has the ability to write with interesting characters however the story was just poorly poorly done...and that was a shame.I would highly recommend you DO NOT BUY THIS.Phil