The last great victory : the end of World War II, July/August 1945 / Stanley Weintraub.

Collection type	Library
Author	Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-;
Call Number	940.5425 W424l
Document type	Monograph
Year	c1995.
Citation	94023987
Pagination	xii, 730 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 c
Publisher	Truman Talley Books/Dutton,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [684]-707) and index. In Potsdam, amid the ruins of a vanquished Germany, the new American President, Harry Truman, matches wits and wills with the aging Winston Churchill (soon to be voted out of office) and a cynical Joseph Stalin. The boundary lines of the new Europe and. e future of the bloody end of the war against Japan are both at stake. In the Pacific, Americans closing in on Japan's home islands fend off waves of kamikaze attacks, even as a massive U.S. buildup for the final assault on the Japanese homeland (code n. e "Olympic")is being readied, with plans that calculate appalling casualties. And, in complete secrecy, a new kind of weapon known as an atomic bomb is being shipped by sea from the U.S. mainland to a far Pacific atoll within air-strike distance of Japa. .
Place made	New York