Black Snow: Curtis Lemay The Firebombing Of Tokyo And Road To Atomic Bomb James M Scott Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Seven Minutes Past Midnight On 9 March 1945 Nearly 300 American B-29S Thundered Into The Skies Over Tokyo Their Payloads Of Incendiaries Ignited A More Than 1 800-Degree Firestorm That Liquefied Asphalt And Vaporised Thousands Sixteen Square Miles City Were Flattened 100 000 Men Women Children Killed Black Snow Is Story This Devastating Operation Orchestrated By Major General Curtis Lemay Who Famously Remarked: “If We Lose We’ll Be Tried As War Criminals” James M Scott Reconstructs In Granular Detail Horrific Night Describes Development B-29 Capture Marianas For Use Airfields Change Strategy From High-Altitude Daylight “Precision” Bombing To Low-Altitude Nighttime Incendiary Most Importantly Raid Represented Significant Moral Shift America Marking First Time Commanders Deliberately Targeted Civilians—Which Helped Pave Way Atomic Hiroshima Nagasaki Five Months Later Σελίδες: 432 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1031 Διαστάσεις: 16X16Cm