Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July-August, 1945

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In Potsdam, amid the ruins of a vanquished Germany, the new American President, Harry Truman, matches wits and wills with the aging Winston Churchill (soon to be voted out of office) and a cynical Joseph Stalin. The boundary lines of the new Europe and the future of the bloody end of the war against Japan are both at stake. In the Pacific, Americans closing in on Japan's home islands fend off waves of kamikaze attacks, even as a massive U.S. buildup for the final assault on the Japanese homeland (code name ...
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In Potsdam, amid the ruins of a vanquished Germany, the new American President, Harry Truman, matches wits and wills with the aging Winston Churchill (soon to be voted out of office) and a cynical Joseph Stalin. The boundary lines of the new Europe and the future of the bloody end of the war against Japan are both at stake. In the Pacific, Americans closing in on Japan's home islands fend off waves of kamikaze attacks, even as a massive U.S. buildup for the final assault on the Japanese homeland (code name "Olympic")is being readied, with plans that calculate appalling casualties. And, in complete secrecy, a new kind of weapon known as an atomic bomb is being shipped by sea from the U.S. mainland to a far Pacific atoll within air-strike distance of Japan....

From the inner councils of the Japanese to the fateful decisions to atom-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Stanley Weintraub brings to life this watershed month in which empires fell, old orders passed away, and a new age began. "The best account yet of the war's final month."--Newsweek. photos. 3 maps.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
This history by the author of Long Day's Jourey Into War, encompasses bloody battles in the Pacific, the Potsdam Conference, the successful testing of an atomic bomb at Almogordo, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Oct.)
Library Journal
In the same format as the author's Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941 (LJ 9/1/91), this book examines the last month of the war through a creative combination of overview and individual recollection. Presenting the events on a daily basis, the author leads up to the Potsdam Conference and the end of the war in Europe. The scene shifts to the Pacific theater and bloody combat that led to the U.S. island victories, the plans for invading Japan, and the agonizing decision to employ the atomic bomb, not once but twice. Meticulously detailed accounts capture the diplomatic maneuverings and political infighting, from the war-weary Winston Churchill and freshman President Truman to the news reports of an invalided naval officer named John F. Kennedy. Strongly recommended for all collections.-David Lee Poremba, Detroit P.L.
Gilbert Taylor
From July 15, the day the Big Three assembled at Potsdam, through August 15, the day Emperor Hirohito euphemistically admitted to his subjects that the war "developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage," the epochal climax to World War II ran its course. Weintraub presents this riveting, globally framed, blow-by-blow account of those 30 days, patterned after his popular "Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941" (1991). Four years later, gigantic events are remembered: millions of Germans flee from the vengeful Communists; a million or so Russian POWs in Western custody are forced back to Stalin's care and to certain imprisonment or death; the dictator negotiates his steely version of realpolitik with Truman and Churchill and Atlee; the Trinity test lights up Alamogordo ("the Second Coming in Wrath," Churchill called it); the "Enola Gay" annihilates Hiroshima; the Russians pour into Manchuria; and Hirohito makes a decisive intervention to stop his government's dithering about surrender--sparking a suicidal revolt by the ultramilitarists. Weintraub paces the stories so well that even though we know what will happen, it feels as if anything could happen--even the projected invasions of Kyushu and Honshu. Ranging through this material like a master historical novelist, Weintraub intensifies the powerful impact of this, the real historical thing. Libraries need not have every anniversary title pushed forward by the publishers, but they must have this one.
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Documents the amazing, drama-packed days in the last month of the Second World War--days that not only would end the greatest conflict in history, but decisively shape the decades to come. Brings to live the events of July 15-August 15, 1945, in all their triumph, tragedy, & suspense.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780525936879
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 7/28/1995
  • Pages: 704
  • Product dimensions: 3.85 (w) x 2.42 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Meet the Author

Stanley Weintraub

Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Penn State University and the author of notable histories and biographies including 11 Days in December, Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, MacArthur's War, Long Day's Journey into War, and A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War. He lives in Newark, Delaware.

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