Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
With Evan Thomas
Part of Moments in History Week
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG3XyxGI5lDjzHOh3VqAJWisXzlKy2SY

At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war "at once." Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet?

This is the opening to our guest's new book; Road to Surrender. So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb - and Japan's decision to surrender.

They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender.

Evan Thomas is the author of bestselling books including First: Sandra Day O'Connor, Being Nixon, John Paul Jones, and Sea of Thunder. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor at Time and Newsweek and has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton.

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USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9780399589256

For an alternative interpretation of the same events, please watch the show with Paul Ham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYBFMgcgn4

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