Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Hardcover - 2023年 5月 16日
作者 Evan Thomas (Author)
4.6 4.6 顆星,最高 5 顆星 847 個評分 4.4 分的 Goodreads 1,179 個評分
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纽约时报》畅销书《艾克的虚张声势》(Ike's Bluff)和《雷霆之海》(Sea of Thunder)的作者以身临其境的方式讲述了对日使用核武器的痛苦决定--二战和地缘政治史上的关键转折点。
"正如克里斯托弗-诺兰(Christopher Nolan)的电影《奥本海默》(Oppenheimer)所展示的那样,冲击波仍在回荡。 资深传记作家埃文-托马斯现在也加入了这场争论。
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5 月 30 日上午 9 时 20 分,格罗夫斯将军收到一条信息,要求他 "立即 "到战争部长办公室报到。 史汀生正在等他。 他想知道:格罗夫斯选定目标了吗?
这本悬念迭起、研究无懈可击的历史著作就这样开始了,它利用最新的日记资料,讲述了与美国投放原子弹的决定--也是与日本投降的决定--密切相关的三个人的故事。 他们是美国战争部长亨利-史汀生(Henry Stimson),在曼哈顿项目中监督罗伯特-奥本海默(J. Robert Oppenheimer);太平洋战略轰炸负责人卡尔-"图伊"-斯帕兹将军(Carl "Tooey" Spaatz),他负责监督投掷原子弹的飞机;以及日本外相东乡茂德(Shigenori Togo),他是裕仁天皇最高战争委员会中唯一一个在原子弹投掷之前就认为日本应该投降的人。
亨利-史汀生曾在五位总统的政府中任职,但随着奥本海默工作的进展,他发现自己的任务是决定是否部署原子弹,这是一个难以想象的决定。 新任总统哈里-杜鲁门(Harry S. Truman)迄今为止在这一重大决定中只是一个边缘人物,他接受了史汀生投掷原子弹的建议。 陆军航空兵司令斯帕兹将军下令飞机起飞。 与史汀生一样,斯帕茨也为这一命令而苦恼,尽管他认识到这将结束战争。 投弹后,东乡外相终于说服天皇投降。
畅销书作家埃文-托马斯(Evan Thomas)通过史汀生、东乡和斯帕兹的日记,生动地描述了这些关键事件,思考了他们做出的历史性决定的巨大分量。 在《投降之路》中,托马斯以身临其境、令人惊讶、感人至深的叙述方式,展现了改变历史的三个人的幕后想法、感受、动机和决策。
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Hardcover – 2023年 5月 16日
作者 Evan Thomas (Author)
4.6 4.6 顆星,最高 5 顆星 847 個評分 4.4 分的 Goodreads 1,179 個評分
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A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.
“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the debate.”—The Wall Street Journal
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet?
So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who oversaw J. Robert Oppenheimer under the Manhattan Project; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito’s Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender.
Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as Oppenheimer’s work progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson’s recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender.
To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.
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