Name: Rain of Ruin. Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
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Author: Richard Overy
ISBN: 9781802065978

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

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin

Author

Richard Overy

Year

2026

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.9x1.5 cm

ISBN13

9781802065978

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

Richard Overy (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "Rain of Ruin. Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan"

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. 'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.' - Philip Snow, Literary ReviewIn 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. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy’s remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began. But it also engages with the new scholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan, where ‘surrender’ was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.