Inferno: The Firebombing of Japan, March 9-August 15, 1945 Tianyuan Unhumans takes readers on a

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General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once

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pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today

Inferno: The Firebombing of Japan, March 9-August 15, 1945 Tianyuan Unhumans takes readers on aDid the bombing of Japan's citiesculminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasakihasten 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