The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb by John Ray Skates

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  • Pub. Date: March 2000
  • 300pp
  • Sales Rank: 212,124

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    • Pub. Date: March 2000
    • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
    • Format: Paperback, 300pp
    • Sales Rank: 212,124

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    For more than a half century scholars and nonscholars alike have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb, but rarely have they studied the American plan to invade Japan, the bomb's alternative as a means of ending World War II. Widely held beliefs about the strength of Japanese forces and the projected loss of American lives have been invoked to justify the use of the atomic bomb. John Ray Skates, however, argues that the invasion plan, code named Operation downfall, until now has not been sufficiently studied to draw such a conclusion. In The Invasion of Japan he remedies that short-coming and disputes many myths that have grown up around the plan.

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    March 02, 2000: John Ray Skates study of the planned invasion of Japan is by far the best of the few books that appeared on the subject. He breaks new ground as well as demolishes many pet misconceptions about Operation Downfall. His high level of scholarship is also to be commended unlike many revisionist authors whose arguments are typically long on ideology and short on factual and logical support. For me the best arguments made by Skates, but sadly glossed over or ignored by many writers on the subject, concerns the overwhelming military power that the Allies can bear on Japan vis-a-vis their opponents weaker than imagined defenses. Overall, Mr. Skates book lives up to the best expectations of what military history should be.