The Fall of Japan: The Closing Weeks of World Conflict II within the Pacific

By midsummer 1945, Japan had lengthy since misplaced the struggle within the Pacific. The folks weren’t advised the reality, and neither was the emperor. Japanese generals, admirals, and statesmen knew, however solely a handful of leaders have been prepared to simply accept defeat. Most have been bent on combating the Allies till the final Japanese soldier died and the final metropolis burned to the bottom.

 

Exhaustively researched and vividly advised,
The Fall of Japan masterfully chronicles the dramatic occasions that introduced an finish to the Pacific Conflict and compelled a once-mighty navy nation to give up unconditionally.

 

From the ferocious combating on Okinawa to the all-but-impossible mission to drop the 2nd atom bomb, and from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White Home to the Tokyo bunker the place tearful Japanese leaders first advised the emperor the reality, William Craig captures the pivotal occasions of the struggle with spellbinding authority.
The Fall of Japan brings to life each celebrated and lesser-known historic figures, together with Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the brash commander who drew up the Yamamoto plan for the assault on Pearl Harbor and impressed the demise cult of kamikaze pilots., This astonishing account ranks alongside Cornelius Ryan’s
The Longest Day and John Toland’s
The Rising Solar as a masterpiece of World Conflict II historical past.