Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing. Hardcover. 351 pages. Illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Signed by both authors on title page. 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. Condition: Very good / very good.

Keywords: Atomic Bomb, WWII, Military Strategy, WWII, Biological Warfare, Douglas MacArthur, Harry S. Truman, George C. Marshall, Signed

ISBN: 0684804069

[Book #39450]

Price: $65.00