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962. “An image of Manchuria” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 353.
963. “‘The Japanese,’ concluded” BNA FO371 F11097/6390/61.
964. “I felt I had acquitted myself” IWM Daniels MS, op. cit., p. 289.
965. “The feeling of Japan’s leaders” Shigemitsu, op. cit., p. 324.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO • LEGACIES
966. “If the bombing of Hiroshima” Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles, Penguin 2002, p. 778.
967. ‘“Dear Sir,’ wrote Garba Yola” LHA Stockwell Papers.
968. “Despite his undoubted qualities” Spector, op. cit., pp. xiv–xv.
969. “Our country is in ruins” Abbott, op. cit., p. 196.
970. “I marvel continually” USAMHI Griswold Papers 18.9.45.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Max Hastings is the author of the critically acclaimed Warriors, Armageddon and Overlord, and thirteen other titles. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of Britain’s Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph and has received numerous British Press Awards, including Journalist of the Year in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988. He lives outside London.
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Editor
MILITARY HISTORY
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Das Reich
Overlord
Victory in Europe
The Korean War
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945
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COUNTRYSIDE WRITING
Outside Days
Scattered Shots
Country Fair
ANTHOLOGY (EDITED)
The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes
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Portions of this work appeared in World War II magazine. Originally published in Great Britain as Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45, by HarperPress, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, London, in 2007.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hastings, Max.
Retribution : the battle for Japan, 1944–45 / by Max Hastings.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Pacific Area. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Japan. I. Title.
D767.H353 2008
940.54'25—dc22 2007034202
eISBN: 978-0-307-26864-8
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