Inferno: The Firebombing of Japan, March 9–August 15, 1945 (Lyons Press Library of WWII) by Edwin P. Hoyt
English | November 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 1493086448 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 3.73 MB
Did the bombing of Japan's cities—culminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—hasten the end of World War II? Edwin Hoyt, World War II scholar and author, argues against the U.S. justification of the bombing. In Inferno, Hoyt shows how the United States bombed without discrimination, hurting Japanese civilians far more than the Japanese military. Hoyt accuses Major General Curtis LeMay, the Air Force leader who helped plan the destruction of Dresden, of committing a war crime through his plan to burn Japan's major cities to the ground.