Japan was on one side and on the other side were the United States and Australia.
History shows that war is completely different from normal life.
Good things we see are hard work and intelligence. When we look at war, there are lot of books about it, but most of them treat war as if it were a game of checkers played between generals, almost like they were moving machines and men around like little pieces on the board. Dr. Bergerud was helped by some Australian people in doing his research, mostly over the phone. He wishes to get more research from the Japanese. There was plenty of information available so that he could track the basics.