Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947 Giangreco D. M.
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947 Giangreco D. M. This work is a must-read for those interested in U.S. --Naval War College ReviewHell to Pay examines the invasion…
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Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947 Giangreco D. M.
This work is a must-read for those interested in U.S. --Naval War College ReviewHell to Pay examines the invasion of Japan in light of the large body of Japanese and American operational and tactical planning documents the author unearthed in familiar and obscure archives. and Japanese military and political historiography and strategy in the final year of World War II and the critical factors contributing to war termination in the Pacific.
This groundbreaking history counters the revisionist interpretations questioning the rationale for the use of the atomic bomb and shows that President Truman's decision was based on real estimates of the enormous human cost of a conventional invasion.This revised It includes postwar interrogations and reports that senior Japanese commanders and their staffs were ordered to produce for General MacArthur's headquarters.
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