Downfall The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

Name: Downfall The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
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ISBN: 9780141001463

ISBN-10: 0141001461

ISBN-13: 9780141001463

Edition: 2001

Authors: Richard B. Frank

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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.38" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction



Tokyo Burns: Raid of March 9-10



Strategies Old, Strategies New



From Zeppelins to B-29s



LeMay Takes Command



Fire and Mud



The "Fundamental Policy"



Magic Insights



Downfall and Olympic Plans



The Invasion and the President



Pummeling and Strangling: Bombardment and Blockade, June to August



Ketsu Operation on Kyushu



Kamikazes, Civilians, and Assessments



The Eclipse of Olympic



Unconditional Surrender and Magic



Magic and Diplomacy with the Soviets



Hiroshima



Manchuria and Nagasaki



The Decisive Day



Surrender



Assessing Realities



Alternatives and Conclusions


App. A


App. B


Notes


Bibliographic Note


Index