Languages:EnglishPublisher:Ballantine BooksISBN-13:9780345494795ISBN-10:345494792UPC:9780345494795Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Thrillers, War & MilitaryBook Topic:EspionageSize:7.96 x 5.40 x 0.99 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SC46NSXZ66
America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But Japan has only begun to fight. . . . In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame-their aim: to take America down with them. In Robert Conroy's brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito's capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before-from POWs used as human shields to a rain of kamikaze attacks that take out the highest-value target in the Pacific command-the invasion's success is suddenly in doubt. As America's streets erupt in rioting, history will turn on the acts of a few key players from the fiery front lines to the halls of Washington to the shadowy realm of espionage, while a mortally wounded enemy becomes the greatest danger of all. Praise for Robert Conroy's 1901 "Likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs . . . The writing . . . keeps us turning the pages."
-Booklist "Fascinating . . . skillfully crafted."
-Oakland Press "Packed with action."
-Detroit News
But Japan has only begun to fight. . . . In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame-their aim: to take America down with them. In Robert Conroy's brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito's capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before-from POWs used as human shields to a rain of kamikaze attacks that take out the highest-value target in the Pacific command-the invasion's success is suddenly in doubt. As America's streets erupt in rioting, history will turn on the acts of a few key players from the fiery front lines to the halls of Washington to the shadowy realm of espionage, while a mortally wounded enemy becomes the greatest danger of all. Praise for Robert Conroy's 1901 "Likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs . . . The writing . . . keeps us turning the pages."
-Booklist "Fascinating . . . skillfully crafted."
-Oakland Press "Packed with action."
-Detroit News
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Ballantine BooksISBN-13:9780345494795ISBN-10:345494792UPC:9780345494795Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Thrillers, War & MilitaryBook Topic:EspionageSize:7.96 x 5.40 x 0.99 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SC46NSXZ66
Robert Conroy was a business and economic history teacher who lived in Detroit. His alternate-history novels include 1901, 1862, 1945, 1942, and Red Inferno: 1945. He died in 2014.
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