Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
by Evan Thomas
Buy on AmazonA riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder. “As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the debate.”—The Wall Street Journal AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet?…
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"This is an enthralling account of the events leading up to the Japanese surrender in World War II. Evan Thomas has gotten access to the diaries of leading players on the American and Japanese sides of the drama. What he has produced is a riveting account of the decision to drop two atomic bombs, but even more importantly, he has shed new light on the cataclysmic power struggle behind the scenes in Japan and how the powerful military fought the idea of surrender quite literally to its death. This is a book perfectly paired with American Prometheus (which was the source material for the film Oppenheimer) and is remarkable for the way it counters modern conventional wisdom about the atomic end of the war."
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