Author: Hoyt, Edwin P.,
Title: CLOSING THE CIRCLE - War in the Pacific 1945.
Description: Avon, New York, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiii, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of matters both political and military during the last 60 days of the war against Japan during 1945, when the Potsdam option of unconditional surrender was the only option on the table from the Allies and the Japanese army and navy were still insistant on a battle to the last, only to be overruled by the action of the Emporer at the last, after the second atom bomb on Nagasaki. The narrative includes terms of the Potsdam Declaration, the preparations for the atom bombs, the loss of the US cruiser Indianapolis and the fact that no-one in the US Navy seems to have noticed until three days later, the preventive strikes against kami-kazi forces by the US Navy and the declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria against Japan by the Russians at the last minute, faint crease in spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good
Keywords: war ww2 pacific japan
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Title: CLOSING THE CIRCLE - War in the Pacific 1945.
Description: Avon, New York, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiii, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of matters both political and military during the last 60 days of the war against Japan during 1945, when the Potsdam option of unconditional surrender was the only option on the table from the Allies and the Japanese army and navy were still insistant on a battle to the last, only to be overruled by the action of the Emporer at the last, after the second atom bomb on Nagasaki. The narrative includes terms of the Potsdam Declaration, the preparations for the atom bombs, the loss of the US cruiser Indianapolis and the fact that no-one in the US Navy seems to have noticed until three days later, the preventive strikes against kami-kazi forces by the US Navy and the declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria against Japan by the Russians at the last minute, faint crease in spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good
Keywords: war ww2 pacific japan
Price: GBP 8.00 = appr. US$ 11.42 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 44568
- Book number: 44568
See more books from our catalog: WW2 - Far East and Pacific