Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 - Hardcover

Giangreco, D. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1682471659 ISBN 13: 9781682471654

Verlag: Naval Institute Press, 2017

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"The updated version of Hell to Pay is a must read for any student of World War II as Giangreco has greatly improved on his already impressive work." - Strategy Page "Giangreco's updated work is a superb example for future historians . . . as it hits square at the Schwerpunkt [Centre of Gravity - Ed.] of the critics' arguments, arguments that continue to proliferate virtually unchallenged in mediums such as Netflix, the Internet, and through those who continue to distort history `in the service of peace.' It is an increasingly-unavoidable truth that is inconvenient for some: the atomic bombing of Japan saved millions of lives. And among them would have been Canadian lives from the 6th Canadian Division, and RCAF Tiger Force Lancaster crews committed to Operation OLYMPIC." - Canadian Military Journal "This work is a must-read for those interested in U.S. and Japanese military and political historiography and strategy in the final year of World War II and the critical factors contributing to war termination in the Pacific." - Naval War College Review, 2018 "Hell to Pay is the definitive work on the planned invasion of Japan. Giangreco sets the standard for a historical argument and includes his key sources in the appendices. The book is powerful and sobering, offering a glimpse of a road not taken but with the discipline not to stray into fantasy or what ifs. Sobering, Giangreco makes an unassailable case that the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic bomb and resulting Japanese surrender was not only the right choice at the time, but a deliverance for both nations." - Journal of Military and Strategic Studies "This book is a weapons specialist's, military history buff's and conspiracy theorist's best friend." - RUSI Review

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U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan was begun in 1943, two years before the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Codenamed Operation Downfall, it called for the invasion to be carried out in two stages. First, the US Sixth Army would storm the southern-most Home Island of Kyushu to provide sites for airfields and anchorages to support a second assault directly at Tokyo, 500 miles north, by the First and Eighth armies. These facts are well known and have been recounted - with varying degrees of accuracy - in a variety of books and articles published during and since the 50th anniversary of the victory over Japan. One thing that all of these works had in common was an unfortunate tendency to regurgitate material from the same narrow selection of easily obtained planning documents used in each of the other works. An attempt to understand how both the Americans - and the Japanese - planned to conduct the massive land battles subsequent to the initial landings was not dealt with in these books beyond the skeletal US outlines formulated nine months before the opening land battles were to commence, and over a year before the climactic series of battles near Tokyo which would have included not only the First and Eighth armies but the US Tenth Army as well. On the Japanese side, their plans for Operation Ketsu-Go, the "decisive battle" in the Home Islands, were unexamined below the strategic level and seldom consisted of more than US intelligence estimates of how many Kamikaze aircraft might be available by the time that Kyushu was to be invaded. Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall: the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 will examine this subject in detail.

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• Verlag: Naval Institute Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1682471659
• ISBN 13: 9781682471654
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 584