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140 Days to Hiroshima - The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon (Hardcover)
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140 Days to Hiroshima - The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R525
Discovery Miles 5 250
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During the closing months of the Second World War, as America's
strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military
giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and
diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United States called
for the 'unconditional surrender' of the Japanese Empire while
developing history's deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that
would have dwarfed D-Day. Their enemy responded with a last-ditch
call for the suicidal resistance of every able-bodied man and woman
in 'The Decisive Battle' for the homeland. But had Emperor
Hirohito's generals miscalculated how far the Americans had come in
developing the atomic bomb? How close did President Harry Truman
come to ordering the invasion of Japan? Acclaimed historian David
Dean Barrett recounts the secret strategy sessions, fierce debates,
looming assassinations and planned invasions that resulted in
history's first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing
chaos as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the
reality of nuclear war.
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