Thursday, December 07, 2006

Downfall: the end of the Imperial Japanese Empire

Author: Frank, Richard B.

Title: Downfall: the end of the Imperial Japanese Empire

Published: New York: Penguin, 2001, 1999

Description: 484 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 445-459

Note: Winner of Harry S. Truman Book Award, 2000

Subject(s):
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
  • B-29 bomber
  • Japan -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
  • Japan -- History -- 1926-1945

Review(s):

  • Falk, Stanley L. "DOWNFALL: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire." The Journal of Military History 64.2 (April 2000): 592
  • Levine, Steven I. "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire." Library Journal 124.15 (Sept 15, 1999): 95

Read: July 2002