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Michel Paradis's Last Mission to Tokyo, a "superb" (The Wall Street
Journal) and "engrossing...richly researched" (The New York Times
Book Review) account of a key but underreported moment in World War
II: The Doolittle Raids and the international war crimes trial in
1945 that defined the Japanese-American relations and changed legal
history. In 1942, freshly humiliated from the attack on Pearl
Harbor, the United States was in search of a plan. President
Roosevelt, determined to show the world that our nation would not
be intimidated or defeated by enemy powers, demanded
recommendations for a show of strength. Jimmy Doolittle, a stunt
pilot with a doctorate from MIT, came forward and led eighty young
men, gathered together from the far-flung corners of Depression-era
America, on a seemingly impossible mission across the Pacific.
Sixteen planes in all, they only had enough fuel for a one-way
trip. Together, the Raiders, as they were called, did what no one
had successfully done for more than a thousand years. They struck
the mainland of Japan and permanently turned the tide of the war in
the Pacific. Almost immediately, The Doolittle Raid captured the
public imagination, and has remained a seminal moment in World War
II history, but the heroism and bravery of the mission is only half
the story. In Last Mission to Tokyo, Michel Paradis reveals the
dramatic aftermath of the mission, which involved two lost crews
captured, tried, and tortured at the hands of the Japanese, a
dramatic rescue of the survivors in the last weeks of World War II,
and an international manhunt and trial led by two dynamic and
opposing young lawyers--in which both the United States and Japan
accused the other of war crimes--that would change the face of our
legal and military history. Perfect for fans of Lucky 666 and
Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, Last Mission to Tokyo is an
unforgettable war story-meets-courtroom-drama that "captures the
reader with the first sentence and never lets go" (John Grisham).
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