摘要：After more than a half century, writers continue to produce new historical interpretations of World War II. Among such books, Reluctant Allies falls in the middle of the worth-reading scale. Part of its uniqueness is due to its authors: four men who approached the subject from German and Japanese perspectives but wrote in English to reach a wider audience. One of them, Capt Hans-Joachim Krug, served in German submarines in the Indian Ocean theater. Another, Rear Adm Yoichi Hirama, spent a career in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and is a noted military historian.
