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Название книги: 1945
Автор(ы): Robert Conroy
Жанр: Альтернативная история
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/1945-152620.html
Copyright © 2007 by Robert Conroy
Acknowledgments
As always, I am thankful to my wife, Diane, my daughter, Maura, and friends for their support of my lifelong dream of having a career in writing, however belated.And thanks to Tim Mak for his insights into editing, and Ron Doering for buying the book in the first place.
Introduction
By the summer of 1945, the Japanese were thoroughly and utterly defeated. Their cities were rubble, their navy nonexistent, their economy destroyed, and their people near starvation. By all rights, they should have surrendered.But surrender wasn't in the vocabulary of the militarists who ran the nation. They lived by the code of Bushido, which condemned surrender. Instead, they wished to fight until an honorable peace was achieved and felt they had good reasons for doing so.First, they considered the recent agreement among the Allies, the Potsdam Declaration, to be a plan to destroy both Japan and her culture. This was intolerable to them.Second, they considered any possible occupation of J
Название книги: 1945
Автор(ы): Robert Conroy
Жанр: Альтернативная история
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/1945-152620.html
Copyright © 2007 by Robert Conroy
Acknowledgments
As always, I am thankful to my wife, Diane, my daughter, Maura, and friends for their support of my lifelong dream of having a career in writing, however belated.And thanks to Tim Mak for his insights into editing, and Ron Doering for buying the book in the first place.
Introduction
By the summer of 1945, the Japanese were thoroughly and utterly defeated. Their cities were rubble, their navy nonexistent, their economy destroyed, and their people near starvation. By all rights, they should have surrendered.But surrender wasn't in the vocabulary of the militarists who ran the nation. They lived by the code of Bushido, which condemned surrender. Instead, they wished to fight until an honorable peace was achieved and felt they had good reasons for doing so.First, they considered the recent agreement among the Allies, the Potsdam Declaration, to be a plan to destroy both Japan and her culture. This was intolerable to them.Second, they considered any possible occupation of J
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