Japan: The Final Agony (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Campaign Book, No. 9)

159 pp. Ravaged by firebombs and torn by her efforts to provide the manpower, munitions and food to mount a sufficient force to repulse the American invasion, war-weary Japan was determined still to fight--with bamboo spears in the hands of old men if necessary--but finally her leaders knew the truth: Japan had to capitulate to be annihilated.