I have often wondered if there are any accounts of the other side of the conflicts.?

There is a lot of war propaganda material from WWI and II, heavily sought after by collectors. They're also valuable as historic artifacts to museums. I believe there is still a lot of surviving Nazi propaganda posters and newspapers, and of course there are also news reels and filmed speeches and marches. One place to check out is the Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., or any of the others like it around the world.

I would have to believe the same is true of Japan--there must be collectors interested in obtaining and preserving propaganda materials from there, too. There are certainly still a lot of surviving posters and statues relating to Mao Tsetung in China, and Lenin in the former Soviet Union so I would bet the same regarding fascist dictators as well (I am not comparing communist and fascist regimes, just pointing out that a lot of that stuff is still standing or in tact in museums).

Yes, there are many accounts from the Japanese side, but hardly any are translated into English. Even if they were, you would probably find them hard to read and weird/strange.

I recommend these (you can look them up on Amazon)

+ Beyond Pearl Harbor, by Ron Werneth

+ The Pacific War, 1931-1945, by Saburo Ienaga

+ The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, by John Toland

+ Tennozan, by George Feifer

Invasion - Paul Carrell

It Never Snows In September - Robert Kershaw

The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer

Stuka Pilot - Hans Rudel

The Last Knight of Flanders - Allen Brandt

Defeat in the East - Juergen Thorwald

Samurai - Saburo Sakai

Count Luckner, The Sea Devil (WWI) - Lowell Thomas

The Cruise of the Raider Wolf (WWI) - Roy Alexander

just a few

oh, novels:

The Cross of Iron - Willi Heinrich

The Crack of Doom - Willi Heinrich

All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI) - Erich Remargue

A Time to Love and A Time to Die - Erich Remarque

there are some excellent books out there, war history section is full of them

Not so many books about the guys that DID the pearl harbour attack BUT several that I have seen from the military viewpoint along with a mothers account that I read years ago.

I have read from the viewpoint of the jewish in the camps that survived.

And yes the Germans had MANY posters and campaigns to rally the public to be behind the troops, heck hitler even set up a programme that gave german mothers money for each child they had, to help build the superior race.........

What exactly would you want to know about the Bataan Death March from the Japanese point of view? Like how they walked along and if any of the Allies stumbled or fell they set upon them with clubs and rifle butts, or if the person could go no further they just bayoneted him and left him lying their alongside the road?

Yeah. I need to read that. (Lots of sarcasm all over that last sentence, in case you are quick enough to figure it out.)

"SAMURAI"

Flying the Zero in WW2

with Japans Fighter Ace SABURO SAKAI"

First printed February 1958.

Quite a decent read, he tells of his pilot training and subsequent sorties against the Americans,

He survived the war.

"History is written by the winners." - unknown author