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    REACHING THE END

    Aug 22, 2023 3 minutes

    ROAD TO SURRENDER Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

    By Evan Thomas. 336 pp. Random House, 2023. $28

    IS A FINE, insightful account of the last months of World War II’s Pacific conflict. It concentrates on the Americans who masterminded the deployment of atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and on the Japanese response to those bombardments. (The two apocalyptic bombs weren’t enough to prompt Japan

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