Racing the Enemy - Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan

Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story-the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered.