Rain of ruinIn the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy's book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. He explores the way in which the

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