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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Scott, James (James M.), author.     Subjects     LeMay, Curtis E. -- Military leadership.     Incendiary bombs -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.     Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Scott, James (James M.), author.       by title:      Black snow : Curtis ...         MARC Display

Black snow : Curtis Lemay, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the road to the atomic bomb / James M. Scott. by Scott, James (James M.), author. New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] Subjects LeMay, Curtis E. -- Military leadership.   Incendiary bombs -- History -- 20th century.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.   Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. ISBN:  9781324002994 (cloth) : 1324002999 (cloth) Description:  420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an historical moment of profound contemporary relevance." -Richard B. Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942. Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: 'If we lose the war, we'll be tried as war criminals.' James M. Scott reconstructs in granular detail that horrific night, and describes the development of the B-29, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight "precision" bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America, marking the first time commanders deliberately targeted civilians, which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later. Drawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors, air force archives, and oral histories never before published in English, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account, and his most important and compelling work to date"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54252 Sc Checked out 05/29/2024 Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.54252 Sc Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54252 Scott Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54252 Sc Checked In   Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54252 Sc Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54252 Sc Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54252 Sc Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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