Why read Road to Surrender?

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'A true page-turner.' All About History,

'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay

You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb...

Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions...

Road to Surrender by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas is…

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1 author picked Road to Surrender as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Fred Bowen

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I am a history buff but I have not read that many books about the Pacific theater in WWII.

Thomas examines the final months of the war through the eyes of three of its most important participants: American Secretary of War, Henry Stimson; Head of U.S. Strategic Bombing in the Pacific, General Carl Spaatz; and Japan's War Minister and member of the Japanese War Council, Shigenori Togo.

Road to Surrender is well-written, deeply researched and just plain exciting. It also addresses one of the most interesting questions of the 20th century: Should America have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?

From Fred's 3 favorite reads in 2024.