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    The Last Mission

    Paperback | 448 pages | English
    By (Author) Jim Smith, Malcolm McConnell

    $26.99 NZD

    14 August 1945. As Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, rebel troops commanded by high-ranking officers from War Minister Anami(1)s staff burst into the Imperial palace....

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    14 August 1945. As Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, rebel troops commanded by high-ranking officers from War Minister Anami(1)s staff burst into the Imperial palace. Their intention was to stage a coup, destroy the recording and issue forged orders for Japan to continue the war. Had they succeeded, there would have been massive kamikaze attacks on allied forces, causing carnage and possibly provoking America to drop a third atomic bomb on an already devastated Japan...

    But on that fateful night, in the skies approaching Tokyo, a stream of B-29B 'Superfortress' bombers were heading towards Japan's last functioning oil refinery. Fearing that the approaching planes could be carrying another atom bomb, Japanese air defences ordered a total black out of the city and the Imperial palace and in so doing completely disrupted the rebels' plans, enabling soldiers loyal to the Emperor to sieze back control. At midday on 15 August 1945, the Imperial message of surrender was broadcast throughout Japan. The Second World War was finally over.

    THE LAST MISSION is gripping work of speculative investigation into one of the least known yet profoundly significant episodes of World War II.

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    • Paperback | 448 pages
    • 129 x 199 x 23mm | 302g
    • Transworld Publishers Ltd
    • 14 Jul 2003
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
    • English
    • 8 b&w photos
    • 0553816101
    • 9780553816105
    Type: Book Vendor: Bantam SKU: 9780553816105 Availability: In Stock Tags: Bantam, Jim Smith, Malcolm McConnell, Paperback

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