Rain of Ruin – Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
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Name: Rain of Ruin – Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
Format: epub
Size: 11.58 MB
Book:
Title: Rain of Ruin
Author: Richard Overy
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324105305
Total pages: N/A
Description:
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 85,000 residents, and left more than one million homeless. The attack was part of a months-long campaign of incendiary bombing that destroyed almost two-thirds of Japan’s cities. The two atomic blasts in August killed hundreds of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most of them civilians. The bombing brought a destabilizing devastation that, combined with a declaration of war by the Soviet Union, induced Japan, as they put it, to terminate the war.
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