Format:
XIX, 346 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
25 cm
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
0767907787
Note:
〈1〉 [Table of contents] =A http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002022336.html
,
Expanded and rev. version of Jim B. Smith's 1st person account: The last mission. 1995
,
Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-332) and index
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Machine generated contents note: PART I: TOTAL WAR -- CHAPTER ONE: The Superforts 3 -- CHAPTER TWO: Kokutai and Ketsu-go 34 -- CHAPTER THREE: Potsdam and Trinity 57 -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Boomerang and Enola Gay 80 --PART II: ENDGAME -- CHAPTER FIVE: "A Rain of Ruin" 97 -- CHAPTER SIX: Rumors of Peace 129 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Decision and Indecision 165 --PART III: "TO OUR GOOD AND LOYAL SUBJECTS ." -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Rebellion 191 -- CHAPTER NINE: Blackout 227 -- CHAPTER TEN: The Last Mission 245 --PART IV: A VERY NEAR THING -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Might-Have-Beens 277 -- Chronology of Major Wartime Events in the Pacific: 1945 299.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Tokio
;
Luftangriff
;
B 29
;
Geschichte 1945
;
Japan
;
Atombombenabwurf
;
Hirohito Japan, Kaiser 1901-1989
;
Pazifikkrieg
;
Beendigung
;
Geschichte 1945
