false 5810833 1 <DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<BR>But Japan has only begun to fight. . . .<BR><BR>In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame–their aim: to take America down with them.<BR><BR>In Robert Conroy’s brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito’s capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before–from POWs used as human shields to a rain of kamikaze attacks that take out the highest-value target in the Pacific command–the invasion’s success is suddenly in doubt. As America’s streets erupt in rioting, history will turn on the acts of a few key players from the fiery front lines to the halls of Washington to the shadowy realm of espionage, while a mortally wounded enemy becomes the greatest danger of all.</P></DIV> 5982838 1 5 2009 1945 0 0 0 0 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5810833