The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August 1945

Weintraub, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0452270634 / ISBN 13: 9780452270633

Verlag: Penguin, 1996

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August 1945
• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0452270634
• ISBN-13: 9780452270633
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Recounts the final thirty days of the war, focusing on the momentous meeting of President Truman, Churchill, and Stalin at Potsdam to end the war, the last-minute diplomacy with the Japanese, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb

Reseña del editor

From the inner councils of the Japanese to the fateful decisions to atom-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Stanley Weintraub brings to life this watershed month in which empires fell, old orders passed away, and a new age began. "The best account yet of the war's final month".--Newsweek. photos. 3 maps.