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Rain of Ruin

- Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
Af: Richard Overy Engelsk Hardback

Rain of Ruin

- Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
Af: Richard Overy Engelsk Hardback
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''A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy''s book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.'' - Philip Snow, Literary Review

A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.

In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war.

Richard Overy’s remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began. But it also engages with the new scholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan, where ‘surrender’ was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.

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''A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy''s book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.'' - Philip Snow, Literary Review

A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.

In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war.

Richard Overy’s remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began. But it also engages with the new scholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan, where ‘surrender’ was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780241700693
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0241700698
Kategori: Luftvåben & luftkamp
Udg. Dato: 6 mar 2025
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 243mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 6 mar 2025
Forfatter(e): Richard Overy
Forfatter(e) Richard Overy

Kategori Luftvåben & luftkamp

ISBN-13 9780241700693

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 243mm

Højde 163mm

Udg. Dato 6 mar 2025

Oplagsdato 6 mar 2025

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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