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FRANK, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. Random House,
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Authoritative, and loaded with facts and figures.
HARWIT, Martin. An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the Enola Gay.
Copernicus, 1996.
The case for the failed exhibition by the Museum director who was fired
because of it. Read this alongside the AFA Report, “The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay:
A Retrospective on the Controversy 10 Years Later.”
MADDOX, Robert James. Weapons of Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later.
University of Missouri Press, 1995.
NEWMAN, Robert P. Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. Michigan State
University Press, 1995.
Systematically refutes the arguments of the Revisions
historians on Hiroshima and the fall of Japan.
THE PACIFIC WAR RESEARCH SOCIETY. Japan’s Longest Day. Kodanasha
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Brungei Shunju Ltd., 1965.
Well worth the effort to track down by interlibrary
loan.
SIMONS, Gerald ed. Japan at War. Time-Life Books, 1980.
SWEENEY, Charles W., with James and Marion Antonucci. War’s End. Avon Books,
1997.
Memoir of the aircraft commander on the Nagasaki mission.
TIBBETS, Paul W. Return of the Enola Gay. Mid Coast Marketing, 1998.
Updated
and revised version of The Tibbets Story.
TIBBETS, Paul W. with Clair Stebbins and Harry Franken. The Tibbets Story.
Stein and Day, 1978.
WHEELER, Keith. Bombers Over Japan. Time-Life Books, 1982.
_______, The Fall of Japan. Time-Life Books, 1983.
Excellent popular
summaries in an excellent series. Out of print, but readily available in libraries and from
used book dealers.
WEINTRAUB, Stanley. The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August
1945. Dutton, 1995.
Articles
ALLEN, Thomas B. and Norman Polmar, “Blown Away,”
Washingtonian, August 1995.
COOX, Alvin D., “Strategic Bombing in the Pacific, 1942–1945,” in R. Cargill
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pp 253–381.
DREA, Edward J., “Previews of Hell,” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military
History, Spring 1995.
“The Enola Gay Explosion,” (editorial), Washington Post, Jan. 20, 1995.
ROBERTS, Jeffrey J., “Peering Through Different Bombsights: Military Historians,
Diplomatic Historians, and the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb,” Airpower Journal,
Spring 1998.
“The Smithsonian Changes Course,”(editorial), Washington Post, Feb. 1, 1995.
WASHBURN, Wilcomb E., “The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay,” The National Interest,
Summer 1995.
WOLK, Herman, “The B-29, the A-Bomb, and the Japanese Surrender,” Air Force Magazine,
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