Rain of ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima and the surrender of Japan
Overy, R. J.2026
Book
In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy's book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. He explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began.
Main title:
Rain of ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima and the surrender of Japan / Richard Overy.
Author:
Overy, R. J., author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2026.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2025.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781802065978 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.54252940.54252 OVE940.542 OVE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4245235