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Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
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Nothing has left a bigger and more lasting impact on the world than the atomic bomb. This discerning dive into its dubious deployment on Japan in WWII brings new perspective to its murky legacy.
A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan’s cities in 1945.
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 March burned the city’s most densely populated sector, killed some...
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