Downfall

DownfallBy: Richard B. Frank WINNER OF THE HARRY S. TRUMAN BOOK AWARD A deeply researched analysis of the last months of World War II and the fall of Japan In a riveting narrative that includes information from declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders learned in the summer of 1945 that their

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