The World War II Chronicles (The Fall of Japan; Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad)

✍ Scribed by Craig, William

• Book ID: 109979755
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781504046176

✦ Synopsis

A "virtually faultless" account of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific and the definitive history of the battle for Stalingrad together in one volume (The New York Times Book Review).
Author William Craig traveled to three different continents, reviewed thousands of documents, and interviewed hundreds of survivors to write these *New York Times–*bestselling histories, bringing the Eastern Front and the Pacific Theater of World War II to vivid life.

The Fall of Japan masterfully recounts the dramatic events that brought an end to the Pacific War and forced a once-mighty nation to surrender unconditionally. From the ferocious fighting on Okinawa to the all-but-impossible mission to drop the second atom bomb, and from Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House to the Tokyo bunker where tearful Japanese leaders first told the emperor the war was lost, Craig draws on Japanese and American perspectives to capture the pivotal...