Closing the Circle: War in the Pacific: 1945

xiii, 236 pp. " ... Casts a searchlight on the last eleven weeks of the gigantic convulsion we call World War II ... vividly portrays the effect of high-level decisions that made the choice initially to end the war by amphibious assault on Japan--a holocaust from which we were saved by the fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb. The lesson ... is that power on the sea and liberty are inseparable ..."--Back cover