Rain of Ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

Rain of Ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of JapanAuthor: Overy, Richard Japan Published on 6 March 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Allen Lane) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 224 pages 163 x 243 x 27 420g A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air.

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