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Retribution : the battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Hastings, Max; Hastings, Max. Nemesis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Review "Hastings is a military historian in the grand tradition . . . He is equally adept at analyzing the broad sweep of strategy and creating thrilling set pieces that put the reader in the cockpit of a fighter plane or the conning tower of a submarine." --Evan Thomas, _The New York Times Book Review _ "Compelling . . . To the broad sweep of military events Mr. Hastings adds myriad human stories . . . and he does not hesitate to offer his own keen analysis along the way." --Peter R. Kann, The Wall Street Journal "The great merit of Max Hastings's many books on war is his skill at bringing the numbers, as it were, down to earth. Through the imaginative power of his writing, we get an inkling . . . of what it must have been like to slog one's way up a cliff at Iwo Jima, or be firebombed in Tokyo." --Ian Buruma, _New York Review of Books _ "Hastings has another winner . . . This book is first-rate popular history, stiffened with a strongly stated point of view . . . A close-up and personal look at war as it affected real people, and how it felt to them at the time."--Harry Levins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Explosive, argumentative, intensely researched . . . Demands to be read. A

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Author
Hastings, Max; Hastings, Max. Nemesis
Publisher
Knopf; Alfred A. Knopf
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307268648
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Political Science, Military History
Rating
4.21 / 5 (2,500 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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