Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan is a book written by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard about the Pacific Theater during WWII and concludes with details of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945.

"Readers of history will have learned the same lessons from John Dower's Embracing Defeat or Richard Frank's Downfall, two of many rich accounts of the war against Japan.

"O’Reilly and his co-writer Martin Dugard write sentences without life—flat, passive, riddled with clichés, sometimes four or five of them crammed into a single short paragraph.

O’Reilly moves mindlessly from the present tense to the past and then back again, possibly it was someone’s idea of a cure for dead sentences.

His research—what he calls 'the truth'—isn’t fresh, but then, real historians and writers have spent years studying and dramatizing the war in the Pacific.