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10. Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 152—4; W G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Modern Library, 2004), 26—30; Jorg Friedrich, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940—1945, trans. Allison Brown (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 167; Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), 471— 5; A. C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan (New York: Walker, 2006), 271—3.
11. Schaffer, Wings of Judgment, 56, 66—8; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 155—6; Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality, 245; Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 472.
12. Schaffer, Wings of Judgment, 97; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 260— 1; Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality, 254—6; Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 592—3; Charles S. Maier, ‘Targeting the City: Debates and Silences about the Aerial Bombing of World War II’, International Review of the Red Cross, 87/859 (Sept. 2005), 429—44; Stephen A. Garrett, Ethics and Airpower in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities (New York: St Martin’s, 1993), 138, 206; Frederick Taylor, Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 417. See also Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children’s Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death (New York: Delacorte Press, 1969).
13. Saburo Ienaga, The Pacific War, 1931—1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World Wjr II (New York: Pantheon, 1978), 138-9; John W Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific Wjr (New York: Pantheon, 1986), 104; Ronald H. Spector, Eagle against the Sun: The American Wjr with Japan (New York: Free Press, 1985), 148.
14. Spector, Eagle against the Sun, 158—63, 166—78, 190—201, 205—14; Ienaga, Pacific War, 144.
15. Spector, Eagle against the Sun, 502—3.
16. Spector, Eagle against the Sun, 532—40; Robert Leckie, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II (New York: Penguin, 1995), 161; Thomas W. Zeiler, Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Press, 2004), 161—73; Minutes of a Meeting on
18 June 1945, in Merrill, Documentary History, 92.
17. Richard B. Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (New York: Random House, 1999), 80—1.
18. Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 109, 114, 116, 122—3; Frank, Downfall, 54—6.
19. Frank, Downfall, 51 —7, 62—5; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 226—7; Schaffer, Wings of Judgment, 63 ; Kenneth P. Werrell, Blankets of Fire: US Bombers over
Japan during World War II (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996), 150—6.
20. Frank, Downfall, 65—6; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 273—4; Crane, Bombs, Cities, and Civilians, 132; Werrell, Blankets of Fire, 160—3; Gordon Daniels, ‘The Great Tokyo Air Raid, 9—10 March 1945’, in W G. Beasley, ed., Modern Japan: Aspects of History, Literature and Society (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975), 124—6.
21. Daniels, ‘Tokyo Air Raid’, 119, 121, 123—4; Robert Guillain, I Saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, trans. William Byron (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981), 174, 184.
22. Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 277—9; Schaffer, Wings of Judgment, 134—6; Guillain, I Saw Tokyo Burning, 184—8; Daniels, ‘Tokyo Air Raid’, 125—9; Frank,
Downfall, 74; Kyoko Selden and Mark Selden, ‘Introduction’, in Kyoko Selden and Mark Selden, eds., The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989), pp. xiv-xv.
23. Guillain, I Saw Tokyo Burning, 184, 187; Daniels, ‘Tokyo Air Raid’, 129. Guillain gives a figure of 197,000 dead or missing, which seems inflated.
24. Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 275; Guillain, I Saw Tokyo Burning, 182.
25. Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 277—8; Schaffer, Wings ofJudgment, 151 —2; Frank, Downfall, 48, 67.
26. Quoted in Schaffer, Wings of Judgment, 217.
27. James G. Hershberg, James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the