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When the Shooting Stopped - August 1945 (Hardcover)
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When the Shooting Stopped - August 1945 (Hardcover)
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"Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account."
Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Japanese
Empire In the 44 months between December 1941 and August 1945, the
Pacific Theater absorbed the attention of the American nation and
military longer than any other. Despite the Allied grand strategy
of "Germany first," after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the
U.S. especially was committed to confronting Tokyo as a matter of
urgent priority. But from Oahu to Tokyo was a long, sanguinary
slog, averaging an advance of just three miles per day. The U.S.
human toll paid on that road reached some 108,000 battle deaths,
more than one-third the U.S. wartime total. But by the summer of
1945 on both the American homefront and on the frontline there was
hope. The stunning announcements of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 seemed sure to force Tokyo over the
tipping point since the Allies' surrender demand from Potsdam,
Germany, in July. What few understood was the vast gap in the
cultural ethos of East and West at that time. In fact, most of the
Japanese cabinet refused to surrender and vicious dogfights were
still waged in the skies above Japan. This fascinating new history
tells the dramatic story of the final weeks of the war, detailing
the last brutal battles on air, land and sea with evocative
first-hand accounts from pilots and sailors caught up in these
extraordinary events. Barrett Tillman then expertly details the
first weeks of a tenuous peace and the drawing of battle lines with
the forthcoming Cold War as Soviet forces concluded their invasion
of Manchuria. When the Shooting Stopped retells these dramatic
events, drawing on accounts from all sides to relive the days when
the war finally ended and the world was forever changed.
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