Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan.(Review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Crane, Conrad C. | Copyright information

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. By J. Samuel Walker. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 142. $34.95.)

This book is the academic equivalent of the Defense Department's infamous two-hundred-dollar hammer. It performs a valuable function in a superlative manner, but it is unfortunately not worth the exorbitant cost.

J. Samuel Walker initially made his mark with a noteworthy ...

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