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Originally Posted by Otto Harkaman
Audio Book: Slowly listening to John Toland's "The Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945
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re-reading
Downfall by Richard E. Frank. Very scholarly work with many firsthand citations and many previously confidential documents from both US and Japanese governments, including Ultra and Magic.
the final year of the war is discussed from both Japanese and US governments' POV and should be required reading in HS and College History courses.
"Downfall replaces the myths that now surround the end of the war and the use of the bomb with the stark realities of this great historical controversy."
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