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Foreword: "Three colonels" / by Stanley Weintraub
"The maximum bloodletting and delay"
Spinning the casualties
The First Army and Kwantung redeployments
The Pacific build-up and Berlin decision
"Not a recipe for victory "
The decision
Japanese defense plans
"Victory might be salvaged"
The "manpower box"
Mistakes and misperceptions
What is defeat?
The amphibious operation
On the ground
Unexamined factors
A "target-rich environment"
Half a million Purple Hearts
"Punishment from heaven"
Afterword
Appendix A: G-2 estimate of enemy situation on Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, August 1, 1945
Appendix B: G-2 analysis of Japanese plans for the defense of Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, December 31, 1945
Appendix C: Proclamation defining terms for Japanese surrender issued at Potsdam, July 26, 1945 (Potsdam Declaration).
"The maximum bloodletting and delay"
Spinning the casualties
The First Army and Kwantung redeployments
The Pacific build-up and Berlin decision
"Not a recipe for victory "
The decision
Japanese defense plans
"Victory might be salvaged"
The "manpower box"
Mistakes and misperceptions
What is defeat?
The amphibious operation
On the ground
Unexamined factors
A "target-rich environment"
Half a million Purple Hearts
"Punishment from heaven"
Afterword
Appendix A: G-2 estimate of enemy situation on Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, August 1, 1945
Appendix B: G-2 analysis of Japanese plans for the defense of Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, December 31, 1945
Appendix C: Proclamation defining terms for Japanese surrender issued at Potsdam, July 26, 1945 (Potsdam Declaration).