Rain of Ruin by Richard Overy

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/127912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rain of Ruin Author: Richard Overy Narrator: Ralph Lister Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins Release date: 03-06-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Japan Publisher's Summary: In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy’s remarkable book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombs. The popular view that bombing worked in this case has now to be set in a broader context of what was happening in Japan in the months before surrender. The easy equation ‘bombing equals surrender’ is no longer viable.