From Baird Maritime:
A most welcome and important book that should once and for all demolish the sentimental and revisionist, anti-atomic bomb nonsense that was presented as history over the last half-decade or so.
The author shows completely and conclusively that an invasion of Japan would have led to at least five million unnecessary deaths. Roughly ten percent of them were certain to have been Americans.
Japanese behaviour throughout the Pacific War could lead to no other conclusion. Taiwan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Leyte Gulf, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal and other battles showed most clearly the fanatical, suicidal, fight-to-the-death approach of the Japanese Imperial Forces. Any amphibious landing on the Japanese Home Islands would have met with the same response, if not worse.
There is no doubt in the author's – or this reviewer's – minds that President Truman's, and his cabinet's, decision was completely correct. While some Japanese and many western revisionist historians still do not appreciate the fact that their decision saved many millions of lives. The Japanese people were fortunate indeed they surrendered when they did.
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