Макс Хейстингс – Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 (страница 1)
MAX HASTINGS
THE BATTLE FOR JAPAN, 1944-45
William Collins
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This ebook edition first published in 2009
First published in Great Britain by Harper
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From the reviews of
‘The shocking, little-known story of the war against Japan. Absolutely excellent’
JOHN SIMPSON,
‘Spectacular. Hastings is excellent, unsparing and compelling. Searingly powerful’
ANDREW ROBERTS,
‘A triumph. Put all these elements together—the ambition, insight, sureness of touch—and you have a book of real quality’
LAURENCE REES,
‘An outstandingly gripping and authoritative account of the battle for Japan, and a monument to human bravery—and savagery’
DOMINIC SANDBROOK,
In memory of my son
CHARLES HASTINGS 1973-2000
War is human, it is as something that is lived like a love or a hatred…It might better be described as a pathological condition because it admits of accidents which not even a skilled physician could have foreseen.
MARCEL PROUST
‘Oh, surely they’ll stop now. They’ll be horrified at what they’ve done!’ he thought, aimlessly following on behind crowds of stretchers moving away from the battlefield.
Tolstoy’s Pierre Bezukhov at Borodino, 1812
In 1944, there seemed absolutely no reason to suppose that the war might end in 1945.
CAPTAIN LUO DINGWEN, Chinese Nationalist army
Contents
5 America’s Return to the Philippines
6 ‘Flowers of Death’: Leyte Gulf