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"Richard Overy [is] one of the world's finest military historians and probably the best historian of World War II writing in English today." --Gen. Mark Milley, U.S. Army retired, Twentieth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army magazine
A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan's cities in 1945.
Brief description: Richard Overy is the author of many outstanding histories of World War II, including Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan. His study of Hitler and Stalin, The Dictators, won the Wolfson History Prize. He lives in England and Italy.
Review Quotes: A first-rate history of one of World War II's great tragedies.--Jonathan W. Jordan "Wall Street Journal"