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140 Days to Hiroshima audiobook
- By: David Dean Barrett
- Narrator: Stephen Graybill
- Category: History, Military, World War II
- Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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140 Days to Hiroshima Audiobook Summary
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.Here are the secret strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history’s first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war.
During the closing months of World War II, as America’s strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan’s cities, two military giants locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United States called for the “unconditional surrender” of the Japanese Empire while developing history’s deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that would have dwarfed D-Day. Their enemy responded with a last-ditch plan termed Ketsu Go, which called for the suicidal resistance of every able-bodied man and woman in the “Decisive Battle” for the homeland. But had Emperor Hirohito’s generals miscalculated how far the Americans had come in developing the atomic bomb? How close did President Harry Truman come to ordering the invasion of Japan?
Within the Japanese Supreme Council at the Direction of War, a.k.a. the “Big Six,” Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo risked assassination in his crusade to convince his dysfunctional government, dominated by militarist fanatics, to save his country from annihilation.
Despite Allied warnings of Japan’s “prompt and utter destruction” and that the Allies would “brook no delay,” the Big Six remained defiant. They refused to surrender even after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How did Japanese leaders come to this impasse? The answers lie in this nearly day-by-day account of the struggle to end the most destructive conflict in history.
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140 Days to Hiroshima Audiobook Narrator
Stephen Graybill is the narrator of 140 Days to Hiroshima audiobook that was written by David Dean Barrett
Stephen Graybill is an actor, producer, and award-winning voice-over artist. He was seen on television in The Girls Guide to Depravity, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, and HBO’s The Wire. He has also acted on stage and done voice-overs for commercials, winning both a Gold Clio Award and a Silver Effie Award. He has also worked on over fifty audiobooks, including Jesus Swagger by Jarrid Wilson.
About the Author(s) of 140 Days to Hiroshima
David Dean Barrett is the author of 140 Days to Hiroshima
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140 Days to Hiroshima Full Details
| Narrator | Stephen Graybill |
| Length | 13 hours 7 minutes |
| Author | David Dean Barrett |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 26, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781094176475 |
Subjects
The publisher of the 140 Days to Hiroshima is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is History, Military, World War II
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The publisher of the 140 Days to Hiroshima is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094176475.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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