Code-name downfall : the secret plan to invade Japan and why Truman dropped the bomb

Book 1995

What would have happened if atomic bombs had not been dropped on Japan in August 1945? Distinguished military writer historians Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar answer that provocative question in Code-Name Downfall, a vivid and dramatic narrative of America's war in the Pacific, which would lead inevitably to massive amphibious assaults against the Japanese home islands. Based on newly declassified documents, personal interviews, and a decade o...

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Atomic bomb

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World War, 1939-1945 Japan

World War, 1939-1945 United States

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ISBN:

9780684804064
0684804069

Description:

351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-340) and index

Contents:

War plan orange
The bloody road to Japan
Winning with air power
350 miles to downfall
Truman's war
Climbing
Olympus
The enemy
The horror weapons
"I have to decide"
"Land the landing force!"
Objective: Tokyo
Groping toward surrender
"Whose son will die...?"

LCCN:

95010418 //r95

Control Number:

56115

Other Authors:

Polmar, Norman

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