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Told from both Japanese and American perspectives, this thrilling bill of the final weeks of World Conflict II in the Pacific has been heralded by the New York Times Reserve Review as "virtually faultless". By midsummer 1945, Japan possessed long since lost the war in the Pacific. The people were not told the reality, and neither was the emperor. Japanese generals, admirals, and statesmen realized, but only a handful of leaders were ready to accept defeat. Most were bent on struggling the Allies before last Japanese soldier passed away and the last city burnt to the ground. Exhaustively investigated and vividly advised, The Fall of Japan masterfully chronicles the remarkable events that helped bring an end to the Pacific Conflict and compelled a once-mighty armed service nation to surrender unconditionally. From ferocious fighting with each other on Okinawa to the all-but-impossible objective to drop the next atom bomb, and from Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House to the Tokyo bunker where tearful Japanese market leaders first advised the emperor the reality, William Craig captures the pivotal occasions of the war with spellbinding expert. The Fall of Japan brings to life both celebrated and lesser-known historical characters, including Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the brash commander who drew in the Yamamoto arrange for the harm on Pearl Harbor and influenced the death cult of kamikaze pilots. This amazing account rates alongside Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day and John Toland's The Rising Sun as a masterpiece of World Conflict II history.
