One Hand Clapping : The Bomb

Donald Sensing at the One Hand Clapping blog has posted on the World War II atomic bombings in Japan, and what led up to the Japanese surrender (it wasn't the bombings directly, he says).

He also suggests that there are two essential books for understanding what happened - Japan's Longest Day, written eight years after the bombings by Japanese historians, and Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank.

Sensing provides some perspective I hadn't quite grasped before this. He also has a link to the text of the initial BBC announcement of the bombing at Nagasaki. Reach his post here.

Sensing links to Amazon in his post. For the Barnes & Noble information on the books, click on the book covers below.


Japan's Longest Day


Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire