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With the war in Europe winding down in the spring of 1945, the
United States turns its vast military resources toward a furious
assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan--the heavily
fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle in the Pacific
theater will feature some of the most vicious combat of the entire
Second World War, as American troops confront an enemy that would
rather be slaughtered than experience the shame of surrender.
Meanwhile, stateside, a different kind of campaign is being waged
in secret: the development of a weapon so powerful, not even the
scientists who build it know just what they are about to unleash.
Colonel Paul Tibbets, one of the finest bomber pilots in the U.S.
Army Air Corps, is selected to lead the mission to drop the
horrific new weapon on a Japanese city. As President Harry S Truman
mulls his options and Japanese physician Okiro Hamishita cares for
patients at a clinic near Hiroshima, citizens on the home front
await the day of reckoning that everyone knows is coming.
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