The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August 1945

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Truman Talley Books/Plume, 1996 - World War, 1939-1945 - 752 pages
From the inner councils of the Japanese to the fateful decisions to atom-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Stanley Weintraub brings to life this watershed month in which empires fell, old orders passed away, and a new age began. "The best account yet of the war's final month".--Newsweek. photos. 3 maps.

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Contents

Prologue
1
THE ROAD TO POTSDAM
14
SUMMER GRASSES
42
Copyright

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Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He has written acclaimed works of military history on World Wars I & II. He lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania.

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