Wartime

This is subtitled Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. The individual chapter titles are rather strange and do not always make it clear what is in each chapter.

The book notes that, at the start of the war, bombing civilians was considered wrong but, by the end of the war, it was standard operating procedure.

It goes into some very strange rumors; that the Watts tower in Los Angeles was broadcasting Tokyo Rose; that Tokyo Rose was really Amelia Earhart; a captured German sub in Florida waters had bread from a local bakery and milk form a Miami diary, and so on.

One section discusses how Japanese were compared to apes, and how some American soldiers took skulls, bones and teeth of dead Japanese as souvenirs. Other aspects of stereotyping are discussed.

There's a lot of other material in this book but I just found it not to be what I expected from the subtitle and overall not incredibly interesting to me.

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