Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2024. Paper Back. Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the..... More