The Fall of Japan vividly recounts the people, decisions and outcomes that contributed to Japan's military downfall in World War II. In this riveting narrative, all the players behind Japan's inevitable confrontation with the West come to life. William Craig reveals the driving ambition of General Hideki Tojo, strong man of the army who rose to Minister of War and then Premier of Japan, and Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the Japanese Navy's crushing defeat at Midway in 1942, the Japanese no longer ruled the Pacific. And by the autumn of 1944, Japanese commanders knew that the possibility of victory was remote. From the exacting plans to regain control of the war at sea to the nightmare aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is an in-depth chronicle of a nation at war.
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