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Rain of ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the surrender of Japan /

"With the development of the B-29 "Superfortress" in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan experienced the three most deadly bombing attacks of the war. The firebombing of Tokyo in Ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Overy, R. J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Armistices.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
Capitulations, Military > Japan > History > 20th century.
Bombing, Aerial > Japan.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Japon > Armistices.
Capitulation militaire > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Bombardement aérien > Japon.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: "It will be all-out"
  • Defeat of Japan
  • American "area bombing"
  • Why the atomic bombs?
  • Surrender: the "sacred decision"
  • Aftermath.