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Black snow : Curtis Lemay, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the road to the atomic bomb / James M. Scott.
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- ISBN: 9781324002994
- ISBN: 1324002999
- Physical Description: 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
- Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-410) and index.
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| Subject: | LeMay, Curtis E. > Military leadership. Incendiary bombs > History > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American. Tokyo (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marvin Memorial Library | 940.544 SCOT (Text) | 30202002382071 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 395-410) and index. | |
| 520 | . | ‡a"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." -- ‡cInside fron jacket flap. | |
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