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140 days to Hiroshima : the story of Japan's last chance to avert armageddon / David Dean Barrett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Diversion Books, 2020Edition: First Diversion Books editionDescription: xii, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781635765816
  • 1635765811
Other title:
  • One hundred forty days to Hiroshima
Subject(s):
Contents:
Tokyo burn job -- A third prime minister in less than a year -- A new president gets up to speed -- Planning for the invasion of Japan -- Ketsu-Go, "The Decisive Operation" -- Potsdam Declaration, a missed opportunity -- The final countdown begins -- Hiroshima -- A shift of power, the first imperial intervention -- The second imperial intervention -- A failed coup d'aetat and surrender -- Epilogue: traditionalists and revisionists -- Map of operation downfall, the proposed invasion of Japan -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.
Summary: On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this war-room account from inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan leading to Armageddon on August 6, 1945. Here are the strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history's first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as Japan struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war.
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On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.

Here are 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 chaotic days as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war.

During the closing months of World War II, as America's strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military giants 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, Downfall, that would have dwarfed D-Day. Their enemy responded with a last-ditch plan termed Ketsu-Go , which called 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?

Within the Japanese Supreme Council at the Direction of War, a.k.a. "The Big Six," Foreign Minister Shigenori Tōgō risked assassination in his crusade to convince his dysfunctional government, dominated by militarist fanatics, to save his country from annihilation.

Despite Allied warnings of Japan's "prompt and utter destruction" and that the Allies would "brook no delay," the Big Six remained defiant. They refused to surrender even after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

How did Japanese leaders come to this impasse? The answers lie in this nearly day-by-day account of the struggle to end the most destructive conflict in history.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-308) and index.

On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this war-room account from inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan leading to Armageddon on August 6, 1945. Here are the strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history's first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as Japan struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war.

Tokyo burn job -- A third prime minister in less than a year -- A new president gets up to speed -- Planning for the invasion of Japan -- Ketsu-Go, "The Decisive Operation" -- Potsdam Declaration, a missed opportunity -- The final countdown begins -- Hiroshima -- A shift of power, the first imperial intervention -- The second imperial intervention -- A failed coup d'aetat and surrender -- Epilogue: traditionalists and revisionists -- Map of operation downfall, the proposed invasion of Japan -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.

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