Status Updates From Nagasaki: Der Mythos der en...

The End throws a different Light on stimpson.

If burning so many Japanese cities to the ground wasn't enough for Truman to consider Pearl Harbor avenged I would say he is a very dark and troubled, if not outright evil, character.

The a-bomb did not significantly change the plans the japanese had to get better surrender terms (diplomacy via Moscow or high enemy death toll) but the soviet entry did as now they had to fight with two super powers attacking them from two sides.

Now we are getting to the new stuff. This "game of chess" between Stalin and Truman is very interesting. Sadly a story we will probably never get a movie about, one of the oh so many. *sigh*

So far there wasn't much new information for me. But I guess for casual readers this is a fitting book.

It took a bit to get back to the heart of the issue again, with the short personal stories and all, and it is bad in my mind that this book has no bibliography and no real notes, but it seems to be back on track again.

Two former mayors of Nagasaki were assassinated?

So far not as scholarly as I expected.