It was first published in trade paperback and ebook form by ballantine books in may 2007. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Books recall horror of atomic bomb the new york times. Herseys extraordinary, gripping book tells the personal stories of six people who endured the 1945 atom bomb attack on the japanese city. A critical perspective on japan s role in world war ii, is an important addition to the study of japanese history. So, japan has been able to unify, even before the wwiis beginning in europe, two groups very different groups of nations, as soviet union and usa and the british empire, in an undeclared coalition against itself, when japan began the long war against china 1931 1945. It is about operation downfall, the proposed invasion of. The book covers the difficult social, economic, cultural and political situation of japan after world war ii and the occupation of japan by the allies between august 1945. From operation downfall to hiroshima and nagasaki, number 200 in ospreys campaign series, has a problem with perspective. The full extent and brutality of imperial japans actions before and during the second world war has not had the same cultural and political resonances as those of nazi germany, nor are they as well remembered.
Marines photographs from ground zero odonnell, joe on. The first fulllength eyewitness account of the atomic bomb attack on nagasaki english and japanese edition. Japan 1945 is an osprey campaign series book, authored by clayton k. The decline and fall of the japanese empire, 1936 1945 modern library war john toland.
It is supposed to be about the final months of the pacific war and the events that led to the japanese surrender, but this narrative is told almost entirely through the parochial lens. August 1945 kamen in hiroshima uber 200000 menschen ums leben. Some are paperback reprints of hardcover books, others are being published for the first time, and several are by japanese authors. The book is full of first hand accounts, because of the authors access to. Other events of 1945 history of japan timeline years.
However, this book is more importantly, a tribute to its author, japanese historian, saburo ienaga. Operation downfall and the invasion of japan, 1945 1947 giangreco, d. List of books and articles about japan, postwar period. This article relies largely or entirely on a single source.