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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. <p>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 kamikaze attacks on Allied forces, costing huge casualties and just possibly provoking the Americans to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan over Tokyo–and continue to drop more bombs as Japanese resistance stiffened.</p> <

Who reads The Last Mission : The Secret History of World War II's Final Battle?

Author

Jim Smith, Malcolm McConnell

Publisher

Broadway [Imprint] Broadway Books Random House [distributor

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780767907798

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

3.76 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14