| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 769.2 A48 1995 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18434 |
| Library Of Congress Control Number |
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| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 0684804069
- International Standard Book Number - 9780684804064
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 769.2
- Item number - A48 1995
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
- Classification number - 940.54/4973
- Edition number - 20
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Allen, Thomas B.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Code-name downfall :
- Remainder of title - the secret plan to invade Japan and why Truman dropped the bomb /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Simon & Schuster,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1995.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 351 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-340) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - The men from Shangri-La -- War Plan Orange -- The bloody road to Japan -- Winning with air power -- 350 miles to downfall -- Truman's war -- Climbing Olympus -- The enemy -- The horror weapons -- "I have to decide" -- "Land the landing force!" -- Objective : Tokyo -- Groping towards surrender -- "Whose son will die...?" -- Appendix A. Japanese defensive forces -- Appendix B. U.S. forces for the Kyushu assault -- Appendix C. U.S. forces for the Honshu assault -- Redeployment of U.S. forces from Europe
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "What would have happened if atomic bombs had not been dropped on Japan in August 1945? Distinguished military writer historians Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar answer that provocative question in Code-Name Downfall, a vivid and dramatic narrative of America's war in the Pacific, which would lead inevitably to massive amphibious assaults against the Japanese home islands. Based on newly declassified documents, personal interviews, and a decade of meticulous research, their book traces the progress of the Pacific War and reveals the top-secret details of the plans and preparations, on both the American and Japanese sides, for an invasion that would be far more complex--and costly in human lives--than the D-Day landings in France..."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Japan.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Strategy.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Atomic bomb.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Polmar, Norman.
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