Hell to Pay Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-47

Name: Hell to Pay Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-47
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ISBN: 9781591143161

ISBN-10: 1591143160

ISBN-13: 9781591143161

Edition: 2009

Authors: D. M. Giangreco, Stanley Weintraub

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This text presents a detailed examination of the strategic plans for a US invasion of Japan to end the war in the Pacific. Planning for Japan's invasion began in 1943, two years before the dropping of atom bombs. This book analyses the US strategy.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication date: 10/15/2017
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 7.13" wide x 10.31" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English

Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He has written acclaimed works of military history on World Wars I & II. He lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania.



List of Illustrations


Foreword: "Three Colonels"



Preface and Acknowledgments



The Maximum "Bloodletting and Delay"



Spinning the Casualties



The First Army and Kwantung Redeployments



The Pacific Build-up and Berlin Decision



"Not a Recipe for Victory"



The Decision



Japanese Defense Plans



"Victory Might Be Salvaged"



The "Manpower Box"



Mistakes and Misperceptions



What Is Defeat?



The Amphibious Operation



On the Ground



Unexamined Factors



A "Target-Rich Environment"



Half a Million Purple Hearts



"Punishment from Heaven"



G-2 Estimate of Enemy Situation on Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, August 1, 1945



G-2 Analysis of Japanese Plans for the Defense of Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, December 31, 1945



Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender Issued at Potsdam, July 26, 1945 (Potsdam Declaration)



Extract from a Letter Written by James Michener, October 20, 1995


Notes


Index