Henry Holt & Company
September 2016
On Sale: September 13, 2016
336 pages ISBN: 1627790624 EAN: 9781627790628 Kindle: B01CNTUGF4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The powerful and riveting new book in the
multi-million-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and
Martin Dugard
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is
escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an
opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The
Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido,
stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor.
Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody
tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to
the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur
has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale
invasion of Japan.
Across the globe in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert
Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test
the deadliest weapon known to mankind. In Washington, DC,
FDR dies in office and Harry Truman ascends to the
presidency, only to face the most important political
decision in history: whether to use that weapon.
And in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, who is considered a deity by
his subjects, refuses to surrender, despite a massive and
mounting death toll. Told in the same page-turning style of
Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing
Patton, and Killing Reagan, this epic saga details the final
moments of World War II like never before.
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