Retribution : the battle for Japan, 1944-45 /
A chronicle of the horrific final year of the Pacific war. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the victory would be achieved remained to be seen. Hastings gives us incisive portraits of the key figures--MacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-shek,...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Dilemmas and decisions
- Japan: defying gravity
- The British in Burma
- Titans at sea
- America's return to the Philippines
- "Flowers of death" : Leyte Gulf
- Ashore: battle for the mountains
- China: dragon by the tail
- MacArthur on Luzon
- Bloody miniature: Iwo Jima
- Blockade: war underwater
- Burning a nation: Lemay
- The road past Mandalay
- Australians: "Bludging" and "Mopping up"
- Captivity and slavery
- Okinawa
- Mao's war
- Eclipse of empires
- The bombs
- Fantasy in Tokyo
- Reality at Hiroshima
- Manchuria: the Bear's claws
- The last act
- Legacies.
