{"product_id":"rain-of-ruin-tokyo-hiroshima-and-the-surrender-of-japan-paperback","title":"Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second\nWorld War in Asia\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA \u003ci\u003eTelegraph \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year 2025\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives\nto a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle...\nOvery's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and\nsavagery is wafer-thin.' \u003c\/i\u003e- Philip Snow, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of\nJapanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air.\nAmerican planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was\ndecided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end\nthe war.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRichard Overy’s remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last\nstage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in\nwhich the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in\nthe course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists,\nairmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would\nnever have endorsed before the war began. But it also engages with the new\nscholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan,\nwhere ‘surrender’ was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Overy\u003c\/b\u003e is Honorary Research Professor of\nHistory at the University of Exeter and one of Britain's most distinguished\nhistorians. His major works include \u003ci\u003eThe Dictators,\u003c\/i\u003e winner of\nthe 2005 Wolfson Prize, \u003ci\u003eThe Morbid Age\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bombing\nWar,\u003c\/i\u003e which won a Cundill Award for Historical Excellence in 2014. He\nis a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the European Academy of\nSciences and Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44919585243343,"sku":"9781802065978","price":29.98,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_afa100dd-6c2b-49c5-bdbb-68943383935a.jpg?v=1773737838","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/rain-of-ruin-tokyo-hiroshima-and-the-surrender-of-japan-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}