Retribution by Max Hastings
The Battle for Japan, 1944–45
A concise, narrative account of the final year of the Pacific War that traces the major military campaigns, political decisions and human cost leading to Japan’s surrender; it combines operational detail of battles such as Okinawa and the naval and air offensives with reporting on the firebombing of cities, the atomic attacks and the suffering of civilians and soldiers, while examining the strategic choices and moral controversies that shaped the Allied campaign and its aftermath.
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- 2008
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- British
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- English
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