140 Days to Hiroshima by David Dean Barrett

140 Days to Hiroshima by David Dean Barrett

During the closing months of the Second World War, as America’s strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan’s cities, two military giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United States called for the ‘unconditional surrender’ of the Japanese Empire while developing history’s deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that would have dwarfed D-Day. Their enemy responded with a last-ditch call for the suicidal resistance of every able-bodied man and woman in ‘The Decisive Battle’ for the homeland. But had Emperor Hirohito’s generals miscalculated how far the Americans had come in developing the atomic bomb? How close did President Harry Truman come to ordering the invasion of Japan? Acclaimed historian David Dean Barrett recounts the secret strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations and planned invasions that resulted in history’s first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaos as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war.

Barrett drops you right into the situation rooms with the most powerful figures in the world during the most critical days of the twentieth century – the climax of the Second World WarInnovatively structured,highly detailed and well-documented -- A. J. Baime
140 Days to Hiroshima is a deeply researched and carefully nuanced narrative, especially powerful on US and Japanese decision-making throughout 1945, culminating in Japan’s surrender. David Dean Barrett shrewdly integrates essential military realities with the potent domestic cross currents affecting leaders on both sides of the Pacific -- Richard B. Frank
Historian Barrett debuts with an impressively researched chronicle of the months leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima … By capturing both sides of the conflict, Barrett generates drama despite the inevitability of the book’s conclusion. Military history buffs will be riveted

David Dean Barrett has published work in WWII QUARTERLY MAGAZINE and GLOBAL WAR STUDIES and is the history content consulting producer for Lou Reda Productions’ forthcoming documentary on the U.S. Eighth Air Force in the Second World War. He lives in Littleton, Colorado.

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ISBN 13	9780750995962
ISBN 10	0750995963
Titel	140 Days to Hiroshima
Autor	David Dean Barrett
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Verlag	The History Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-08-03
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.