Table of Contents

Introduction: Japan's Desperate Military Situation, April to August 1945 Japan's Peace Moves Truman and the A-Bombs Ending the War: The American Point of View The Postdam Conference The Atomic Bombings The First Imperial Decision The Second Imperial Decision and Aftermath Recapitulation and Analysis References Selected Bibliography Index

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A balanced account of the political, diplomatic, and military currents that influenced Japan's attempts to surrender and the United States's decision to drop the atomic bombs.

About the Author

DENNIS D. WAINSTOCK is an Associate Professor of History at Salem-Teikyo University in Salem, West Virginia. He is the author of The Turning Point: The 1968 Presidential Campaign.

Reviews

?Readers will be indebted to Wainstock for his use of US Strategic Bombing Survey interrogations of Japanese leaders as well as material from the Kido Family Documents at the National Diet Library in Tokyo....Wainstock makes an honest effort to examine all sides of the subject.?-Parameters

"Readers will be indebted to Wainstock for his use of US Strategic Bombing Survey interrogations of Japanese leaders as well as material from the Kido Family Documents at the National Diet Library in Tokyo....Wainstock makes an honest effort to examine all sides of the subject."-Parameters