TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hasegawa,Tsuyoshi
TI  - Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
SN  - 9780674038400
AV  - D813 
U1  - 940.53/2452 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- Introduction: Race to the Finish -- 1. Triangular Relations and the Pacific War -- 2. Stalin, Truman, and Hirohito Face New Challenges -- 3. Decisions for War and Peace -- 4. Potsdam: The Turning Point -- 5. The Atomic Bombs and Soviet Entry into the War -- 6. Japan Accepts Unconditional Surrender -- 7. August Storm: The Soviet-Japanese War and the United States -- Conclusion: Assessing the Roads Not Taken -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story--the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered
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