Yamashita’s Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur’s Justice, and Command Accountability (Modern War Studies)
“I don’t blame my executioners. I will pray God bless them.”So said General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan’s most accomplished military commander, as he stood on the scaffold in Manila in 1946. His stoic dignity typified the man his U.S. Army defense lawyers had come to deeply respect in the first war crimes trial of World War II. Moments …