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Atomic Salvation : How the a-Bomb Saved the Lives of 32 Million People by Tom Lewis (2020, Hardcover)

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The work is not concerned solely with the military necessity to use the bombs, it also investigates why that necessity has been increasingly challenged over the successive decades. Controversially, the book demonstrates that the Japanese nation would have suffered far greater casualties—likely around 28 million—if the nation had been attacked in the manner by which Germany was defeated: by amphibious assault, artillery and air attacks preceding infantry insertion, and finally by subduing the last of the defenders of the enemy capital.

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PublisherCase Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC

ISBN-101612009441

ISBN-139781612009445

eBay Product ID (ePID)19050409741

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Book TitleAtomic Salvation : How the A-Bomb Saved the Lives of 32 Million People

TopicMilitary / Nuclear Warfare, Military / World War II, Asia / Japan, Modern / 20th Century

Publication Year2020

LanguageEnglish

GenreHistory

AuthorTom Lewis

FormatHardcover

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Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsThe author does an admirable job of summing up the operational conditions for the Japanese and American militaries until August 1945 and the strength of the resolve of the military and the Japanese people to fight to the bitter end. , Lewis has written an important book focused on facts rather than ideology, politics and revisionism. The book will be of interest to students of history who wish to understand the world as it really was when the United States made the decision to drop the two atomic bombs., This book is a reminder of something we may not wish to be reminded of. But facts are inexorable, and no history of the Second World War could possibly be complete without reference to the final act.

SynopsisA controversial new analysis of the impact of the atomic bombings on Japan and the world. It has always been a difficult concept to stomach--that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, causing such horrific suffering and destruction, brought about peace.Since the initial grateful acknowledgment of the success of the A-bomb attacks in ending World War II, there has been a steady reversal of opinion and sentiment: from a first hearty appreciation to widespread condemnation of the United States for its actions. Atomic Salvation investigates the full situation of the times to a previously unplumbed depth. It examines documents from both Japanese and Allied sources, but it uses in-depth analysis to extend beyond the mere recounting of statistics. It charts the full extent of the possible casualties on both sides had a conventional assault akin to D-Day gone ahead against Japan. The work is not concerned solely with the military necessity to use the bombs, it also investigates why that necessity has been increasingly challenged over the successive decades.Controversially, the book demonstrates that the Japanese nation would have suffered far greater casualties--likely around 28 million--if the nation had been attacked in the manner by which Germany was defeated: by amphibious assault, artillery and air attacks preceding infantry insertion, and finally by subduing the last of the defenders of the enemy capital.The book also investigates the enormous political pressure placed on America as a result of their military situation. The USA's Truman Administration had little choice but to use the new weapon given the more than a million deaths that Allied forces would undoubtedly have suffered through conventional assault.Through investigation of reactions then and since, Atomic Salvation charts reaction to the bombings. It looks briefly at a range of reactions through the decades and shows that there has been relentless pressure on the world to condemn what at the time was seen as the best, and the only, military solution to end the war.Never has such an exhaustive analysis been made of the necessity behind bringing World War II to a halt.