Killing the Rising Sun by Bill & Martin O'Reilly and Dugard & Martin Dugard Summary
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Unraveling WWII's Pacific endgame, this multi-million seller explores the controversial atomic bombings and MacArthur-Truman tensions. How did America's most devastating military decision shape our world? O'Reilly's Goodreads-nominated masterpiece reveals the human cost behind history's deadliest conflict.
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When Einstein's Warning Changed Everything
Picture a nervous scientist clutching a letter in the Oval Office. It's October 1939, and Alexander Sachs has come to deliver Albert Einstein's warning: Nazi Germany might build "extremely powerful bombs of a new type." President Roosevelt's response was immediate: "Alex, what you are after is to see that the Nazis don't blow us up." With a simple command-"This requires action"-the atomic age began. But the weapon developed to stop Hitler would instead end a different war, one fought with a ferocity that made Europe's battlefields look civilized. This is the story of how America faced an enemy that preferred death to surrender, and the impossible choice that followed.
A War Without Rules or Mercy
The Divine Emperor's Ordinary Life
The Accidental President's Impossible Burden
The Bloody Doorstep and Japan's Delusion
Death Delivered, Death Received
The Terrible Choice and Its Aftermath
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