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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.
“Richard Overy [is] one of the world’s finest military historians and probably the best historian of World War II writing in English today.” —Gen. Mark Milley, U.S. Army retired, Twentieth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army magazine
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...