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When the Shooting Stopped - August 1945

Barrett Tillman

When the Shooting Stopped - August 1945 by award-winning author Barrett Tillman. The book has been heralded as “a superb achievement” and explores the month of 1945, a defining period in 20th century history. This new history tells the story of the final weeks of World War II, detailing the last brutal air, land and sea battles with evocative first-hand accounts from pilots and sailors caught up in those extraordinary events. When the Shooting Stopped retells those dramatic events of August 1945, drawing on accounts from all sides to relive the days when the war finally ended and the world was forever changed.
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“A superb achievement. This fast-paced and riveting account of the final weeks of the Pacific War is filled with fresh material, including personal stories and vivid historical detail. Another Barrett Tillman triumph.” - Robert J. Mrazek, award-winning author of The Indomitable Florence Finch “Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account.” - Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire In the 44 months between December 1941 and August 1945, the Pacific Theater absorbed the attention of the American nation and military longer than any other. Despite the Allied grand strategy of "Germany first,” after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. especially was committed to confronting Tokyo as a matter of urgent priority. But from Oahu to Tokyo was a long, sanguinary slog, averaging an advance of just three miles per day. The U.S. human toll paid on that road reached some 108,000 battle deaths, more than one-third the U.S. wartime total. But by the summer of 1945 on both the American homefront and on the frontline there was hope. The stunning announcements of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 seemed sure to force Tokyo over the tipping point since the Allies' surrender demand from Potsdam, Germany, in July. What few understood was the vast gap in the cultural ethos of East and West at that time. In fact, most of the Japanese cabinet refused to surrender and vicious dogfights were still waged in the skies above Japan. This fascinating new history tells the dramatic story of the final weeks of the war, detailing the last brutal battles on air, land and sea with evocative first-hand accounts from pilots and sailors caught up in these extraordinary events. Barrett Tillman then expertly details the first weeks of a tenuous peace and the drawing of battle lines with the forthcoming Cold War as Soviet forces concluded their invasion of Manchuria. When the Shooting Stopped retells these dramatic events, drawing on accounts from all sides to relive the days when the war finally ended and the world was forever changed.

ISBN: 9781472848987
Format: Hardback
Author(s): Barrett Tillman
First Publishment Date: 14 April 2022
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