140 Days to Hiroshima

The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon

David Dean Barrett

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HISTORY PRESS
01 October 2020

History; Asian history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War

During the closing months of the Second World War, as America's strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military giants were 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 that would have dwarfed DDay. Their enemy responded with a last-ditch call 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? Acclaimed historian David Dean Barrett recounts 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 chaos as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war. AUTHOR: David Dean Barrett has published work in WWII QUARTERLY MAGAZINE and GLOBAL WAR STUDIES and is the history content consulting producer for Lou Reda Productions' forthcoming documentary on the U.S. Eighth Air Force in the Second World War. He lives in Littleton, Colorado.

By: David Dean Barrett
Imprint: HISTORY PRESS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780750995962
ISBN 10: 0750995963
Publication Date: 01 October 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Reviews for 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon

Barrett drops you right into the situation rooms with the most powerful figures in the world during the most critical days of the twentieth century - the climax of the Second World War. Innovatively structured,highly detailed and well-documented -- A. J. Baime 140 Days to Hiroshima is a deeply researched and carefully nuanced narrative, especially powerful on US and Japanese decision-making throughout 1945, culminating in Japan's surrender. David Dean Barrett shrewdly integrates essential military realities with the potent domestic cross currents affecting leaders on both sides of the Pacific -- Richard B. Frank Historian Barrett debuts with an impressively researched chronicle of the months leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima ... By capturing both sides of the conflict, Barrett generates drama despite the inevitability of the book's conclusion. Military history buffs will be riveted