Book Review: The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and the Other Changed America by James Campbell
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the publisher for purposes of reviewing it. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] The Color of War is one of those strange history books that seems both bipolar and unified at the same time. It is the story of the invasion of Saipan and the Port Chicago naval disaster told mostly convergently. At first the somewhat bi-polar nature of the way the story was told was off-putting but the more I read the book the more the method made sense. The two different but temporally convergent narratives … More after the Jump…