An elegantly written and comprehensive treatment of the prosecution of Japanese war crimes after the Second World War.

Bass begins his massive, magisterial account of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials with American military police arriving to arrest former Japanese prime minister Tojo Hideki at his home on September 11, 1945.

[A] comprehensive, landmark and riveting book, which is both a sickening record of atrocities and a legal, hairsplitting analysis, as the judges argued over natural law, aggressive war, chain of command and more.

Exhaustive and fascinating.

Impressive.

Authoritative.