Did Japan surrender in 1945 because of the death and devastation
caused by the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki or because of the crushing defeat inflicted on their
armies by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the puppet state they set
up in north-east China? Indeed, the Red Army's rapid and total
victory in Manchukuo has been relatively neglected by historians.
Charles Stephenson, in this scholarly and highly readable new
study, describes the political, diplomatic and military build-up to
the Soviet offensive and its decisive outcome. He also considers to
what extent Japan's capitulation is attributable to the atomic bomb
or the stunningly successful entry of the Soviet Union into the
conflict. The military side of the story is explored in fascinating
detail - the invasion of Manchukuo itself where the Soviet 'Deep
Battle' concept was employed with shattering results, and secondary
actions in Korea, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. But equally
absorbing is the account of the decision-making that gave rise to
the offensive and the political and diplomatic background to it,
and in particular the Yalta conference. There, Stalin allowed the
Americans to persuade him to join the war in the east; a conflict
he was determined on entering anyway. Charles Stephenson's
engrossing narrative throws new light on the last act of the Second
World War.
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