Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947

摘要

One of the greatest "What Ifs" in history concerns the end of the Second World War and the proposed American invasion of Japan. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 is not counter-factual history but uses primary source material to lay out what both the Japanese and Allied high commandsrnexpected to incur with a full-fledged invasion of the Home Islands.