Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb

Allen, Thomas B., and Polmar, Norman

ISBN 10: 0684804069 / ISBN 13: 9780684804064

Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995

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351, illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, usual library markings, rear flyleaf has been removedDJ in plastic sleeve. This book details the U.S. plans to invade Japan at the end of the Second World War. The authors contend that the Japanese were not planning on surrendering, and were only forced to do so by the American use of atomic weapons.

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• Titolo: Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
• Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0684804069
• ISBN 13: 9780684804064
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: First Printing.
• Condizione: good, ex-lib., very good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Atomic Bomb
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • WWII
  • Strategy
  • Biological Warfare

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Riassunto

Revealing a secret World War II invasion plan that would have meant destruction worse than that caused by the atomic bombs, acclaimed military authors examine a plan code-named Downfall that would have turned Japan into a wasteland. 25,000 first printing.

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Storia. Numero volumi 1.