Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second World War and is published to mark the 80th anniversary of the terrible events of that time.
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into
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Agence France-Presse on MSN'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestormOn her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland. Nishio, now about to turn 86, was one of the lucky ones.
Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
"It was like the surface of the Moon". British historian Richard Overy, author of "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan", said that creating "an unstoppable conflagration" was ...
Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.
"It was like the surface of the Moon". British historian Richard Overy, author of "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan", said that creating "an unstoppable conflagration" was ...
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