04141cam a2200877 4500 526391138 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307419477 0307419479 B000XU8EAU Amazon 950cffbb-1710-435f-9272-5b485381ce01 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 169104 169104 169104 450329 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Smith, Jim. The Last Mission [Libby eBook] : The Secret History of World War II's Final Battle. Crown, 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2125kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. military history books. japanese mythology. world war 2 books. fathers day gifts. European History. Military History. Japanese culture. Japanese history. history of japan. autobiographies. political books. military books. World History. Autobiography. gifts for dad. history books. japan history. grandpa gifts. World War II. Pearl Harbor. biographies. World War 2. Biography. Hiroshima. Asian art. war books. dad gifts. politics. japanese. Military. History. hitler. Japan. Asian. Asia. army. War. HTML:A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.<br /> <br /> How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? <i>The Last Mission</i> explores this question through two previously neglected strands of late—World War II history, whose very interconnections could have caused a harrowing shift in the course of the postwar world. On the final night of the war, as Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, a band of Japanese rebels, commanded by War Minister Anami's elite staff, burst into the palace. They had plotted a massive coup that aimed to destroy the recordings of the Imperial Rescript of surrender and issue false orders forged with the Emperor’s seal commanding the widely dispersed Japanese military to continue the war. If this rebellion had succeeded, the military would have proceeded with large-scale... Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Military. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. McConnell, Malcolm. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/950/CFF/BB/LastMissionTheSecretHistoryofWorldWar9780307419477.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=950CFFBB-1710-435F-9272-5B485381CE01&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/950/CFF/BB/LastMissionTheSecretHistoryofWorldWar9780307419477.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=950CFFBB-1710-435F-9272-5B485381CE01&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/950/CFF/BB/LastMissionTheSecretHistoryofWorldWar9780307419477.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=950CFFBB-1710-435F-9272-5B485381CE01&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)