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

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995

About this Item

351, illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 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 surrender, and were only forced to do so by the U.S. 's use of atomic weapons.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684804069
• ISBN 13: 9780684804064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: very good, very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • WWII
  • Strategy
  • Atomic Bomb
  • Biological Warfare

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Synopsis

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.