Title: Give it a miss
Review: The only thing holding the author's theories together is a belief that the Japanese were truly willing to surrender. Japan's culture was steeped in the belief that surrender was a shameful act. The more you study Japan's culture and war tactics, the less likely you will believe this book.Japan was willing to fight to the bitter end, and the end wasn't in sight until the second bomb was dropped. After the first bomb was dropped, the Japanese Army heads were convinced that there were no more bombs available. After the second, they believed that the US had a stockpile of atomic bombs. I wonder what they would have done if they knew there were no more bombs ready? Would they have gone ahead and surrendered, or would they have kept fighting?I wish the author had researched the existing Japanese documents, and used them to write a balanced story. This is revisionist histoy at its worst.
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