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Examines the U.S. plan to end the Second World War by invading Japan

For more than a half century scholars and nonscholars alike have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb, but rarely have they studied the American plan to invade Japan, the alternative to using the bomb to end the Second World War. Widely held beliefs about the strength of Japanese forces and the projected loss of American lives have been invoked to justify the decision to drop the bomb. John Ray Skates, however, argues that the invasion plan, code named Operation Downfall, until now has not been sufficiently studied to allow such a justification. In The Invasion of Japan he remedies that shortcoming and disputes many myths that have grown up around the plan.

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  • Title The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb
  • Author John Ray Skates
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-01-31
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781570033544 / 1570033544
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 5.99 x 0.76 in (22.94 x 15.21 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93034193
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.54

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  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2001, Page 84

About the author

John Ray Skates is professor of history and past chair of the history department at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. A retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, Skates served as visiting research professor at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C., while conducting research for this book. Skates lives in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

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