Short History of World War II - James L. Stokesbury [223]
A great deal has been written on the atomic bombs. The classic account of the bombing itself is John Hersey’s Hiroshima (New York, 1946). The director of the bomb development project, Leslie R. Groves, wrote Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (New York, 1962). M. Amrine did The Great Decision: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb (New York, 1959), and W. L. Lawrence wrote Dawn over Zero: The Story of the Atomic Bomb (New York, 1947). From the Japanese point of view, which as might be expected is markedly different from the American, there are M. Hachiya’s Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (Chapel Hill, N. C, 1955), and T. Nagai’s We of Nagasaki: The Story of Survivors in an Atomic Wasteland (New York, 1951). Herbert Feis ties the bombings and the surrender together in Japan Subdued: The Atomic Bombs and the End of the War in the Pacific (Princeton, 1961).
Finally, problems of the end of the war have tended to shade rapidly into problems of the Cold War, and there is a considerable literature on many of the matters merely touched in passing at the close of the war. On Nuremberg and the War Crimes trials a most interesting work is Bradley F. Smith’s Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (New York, 1977). J. M. Blum presented a liberal view of what the war did to and for, and what it did not do to and for, the United States in V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II (New York, 1976). For longer views, Andre Fontaine’s History of the Cold War (New York, 2 vols., 1970) began with the Russian Revolution, and L. J. Halle’s The Cold War as History (New York, 1967) does an excellent job of putting the postwar upheaval in perspective, as does the previously mentioned G. F. Kennan’s Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin (Boston, 1960).
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ABDACOM, East Indies defense and, 204–207
Abyssinia. See Ethiopia
Adam, Wilhelm, 61
Air warfare: in Battle of the Atlantic, 128; in Battle of the Bulge, 354–355; in China, 327, 329; and invasion of Norway, 87; and Japanese Pacific offensives, 201, 202–203, 204, 205; at Midway, 215–216. See also Battle of Britain; Bombing; Kamikaze; Strategic bombing of Europe
Aircraft: German, 351; and interwar military theory, 28; number of German vs. Allied in 1940, 93; sent from Allies to Russia, 234–235. See also Air warfare
Aircraft carriers: and Battle of Midway, 215–216; and bombing of Tokyo, 214
Alam el Halfa, Battle of, 220–221
Alamein, El, Battle of, 219, 220, 223
Albania, Italian takeover of, 37
Aleutians, 214, 247, 248
Alexander, Bernard, 176–177, 220
Alexander, Sir Harold, 293, 294, 298, 304, 305–306, 307, 308, 350
Algeria, 224, 226–227
Aliakmon Line, 143–144
Allied conferences: Arcadia, 184; Bolero, 184; Casablanca, 184–185; concerns of, 183–184; and decision to invade France, 223–224; Potsdam, 186, 187; Quadrant, 186; results of, 187; Tehran, 186, 307; Trident, 185–186; Yalta, 186–187
Allied Foreign Ministers, Moscow meeting of, 382
Allies (World War I). See World War I
Allies (World War II): and aims of individual states, 175–177; nature of coalition of, 175–183; solidarity against Axis, 351–352; tactical decisions by, 245–247; war aims of, 185; war machine of, 357. See also Allied conferences; and under individual names of
Alsace-Lorraine, France, 356
American-British-Dutch-Australian Command. See ABDACOM
American Nazi Party, 117
Amphibious landings: at Anzio, 303; at Iwo Jima, 367; at Peleliu, 340