Rain of Ruin

“Richard Overy [is] one of the world’s finest military historians and probably the best historian of World War II writing in English today.” —Gen. Mark Milley, U.S. Army retired, Twentieth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army magazine A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan’s cities in 1945.