End of the Pacific War Reappraisals

"This book offers state-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender: Which was the critical factor, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the Soviet Union's entry into the war? Writing from the perspective of three different nationalities and drawing on newly available documents from Japan, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, five distinguished historians review the evidence and the arguments-and agree to disagree."--BOOK JACKET.Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi is the author of 'End of the Pacific War Reappraisals', published 2007 under ISBN 9780804754279 and ISBN 0804754276.