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The world is quite confusing and complicated! It is more than that. This fills a gap. Very interesting and informative.
This book is worth reading while keeping in mind the current situation with russia and ukraine. It is clear, concise, and engaging.
Curtis lemay asserts the march attack destroyed nearly sixteen square miles of the city and killed 105,000 people. The cruelty of war is on full display.
Scott assembles all of these elements. Author scott tells that story with a convincing narrative and depth of analysis. It may be difficult for some readers to tackle given the subject matter and personal accounts.
The b-29 bomber was designed for the high-altitude, precision * of enemy military and industrial targets. Scott evocatively recounts the experiences of american airmen during such * raids. The author does a fine effort in researching and presenting th... Read More
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He was certainly not the bloodthirsty psychopath that many paint him to be and he definitely wasn’t a cultured intellectual vis... Read More
At the time the campaign was wildly popular with the american publicexcepting for a few pacifists quakers intellectuals and artists
General arnold facing political pressure to achieve great success with the b29 having spent some us3 billion on the program w... Read More
Packaging/appearance
It discusses the strategic purpose of establishing b29 bases in the marianas
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japanese and many. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 330 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 5 2023.
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I found it to be largely neutral about the morality and wisdom of the bombing campaign
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At the time the campaign was wildly popular with the american publicexcepting for a few pacifists quakers intellectuals and artists
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However by any measure the bombing campaign of burning alive 100s of thousands of japanese civilians was barbaric in the extreme
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You can mitigate the american barbarism a bit by pointing out the barbarism of the japanese army but the idea was that we were supposed to he better than the japanese
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I felt like i was reading a documentary on the raids
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Could have used a lot more photos of the airfields and aircraft
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The united states began bombing japan in november 1944 with the goal of knocking them out of the war
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Employed selective daylight precision bombing targeting industrial and economic choke points
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