Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

by James M. Scott

Book Overview

Seven minutes past midnight on March 9, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a more than 1,800-degree firestorm that liquefied asphalt and vaporized thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002999
• ISBN13: 9781324002994
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"