Closing the circle
Subtitle: war in the Pacific, 1945
By: Edwin P. Hoyt.
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan; Japan -- History -- 1912-1945
Description: "...Casts a searchlight on the last eleven weeks of the gigantic convulsion we call World War II...vividly portrays the effect of high-level decisions that made the choice initially to end the war by amphibious assault on Japan--a holocaust from which we were saved by the fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb. The lesson...is that power on the sea and liberty are inseparable..."--back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 231-232.
Includes index.