Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II

by Marc Gallicchio and Marc S. Gallicchio

Book Overview

A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific

Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. Behind it lay a debate that had been raging for some weeks prior among American military and political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019009110X
• ISBN13: 9780190091101
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"